I was doing my brain slices this afternoon, and one slice decided to disappear down a hole. Where that hole went? I did not know. With the help of a grad student, we dismantled the cryostat..... and it was a pit of tubes and chips of frozen cutting material. Sigh. Where would my important brain slice be? OH, but with my crafty skills, I found that sucker intact, put it on the slide, and made it stick to that slide so it could never ever escape again.
TRIUMPHANT! Today wasn't the best day in terms of slices... I also cut through a part of the brain while trying to make my cutting block smaller (it's not the best thing, if you were wondering) and the cryostat cut chunks off of the cutting material and maybe brain too. Sigh. I did, however, get through 6 brains, and have 6 more to go.
This morning/afternoon, new Frenchies are moving in... seems like a fun group, and time will tell, I suppose...
In other news, I need to practice viola. Audition on Monday. I'm going to go do that until it's dinner time. Korean, yumyum. But, what to play? I'm working on Bach suites, but I definitely don't have enough time to get those in adequate shape, so I'll probably opt for the tried and true: Arpeggione or Kol Nidrei.
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