A profound second for me...

Good morrow to you all I hope today has been treating you well?
I have about five minutes before my DNA is ready to by sliced and diced by some restriction enzymes so I thought I would quickly write a long overdue blog entry.
I've been having an interesting couple of weeks that have been busier than all of my weeks before yet strangely satisfying.

What could I have been doing I hear my three loyal readers collectively ask in unenthusiastic voices! Could I have finally found a boyfriend? Did I cure cancer 2 years before my PhD is over? Did I realise my ankle isn't hurt at all and could throw my below the knee walking boot in the bin? Did channel 9 announce that Gilmore Girls is back on and Scrubs is not far behind? Did someone just tell me that I am going to be the new member of "The Lucksmiths"? Did Colin Firth finally come to his senses and ask me to marry him? Well...essentially no.

Sad but I'm having a better time with my PhD because my BLOODY CLONING has been working!! It was a profound moment when I realised that if I just take a breath and not stress and worry so much about how it might look for me to not even be able to get my BLOODY CLONING to work, it would be a nicer experience when it actually did work! Anyway that lasted an entire second until my supervisor said that while it is ok that I've cloned a splice variant of my gene I need to clone the entire transcript.

So I sighed and went and put on several more PCR's. Nevertheless that profound thought has sustained me for the last three days which is longer than anything else lately has done.

I remember someone told me that doing my PhD will be like I have bipolar disorder because one day something will work and you will have the compulsion to run (or in my case limp) down the hall screaming for joy and the next day it will fail miserably or you realise what you thought was an amazing result can't be replicated or is completely crap - then the depression comes and no amount of alcohol will prevent you from questioning whether you should really be spending all of your time doing something that you know you're too stupid for.

So there we go! I feel like I need to explain my behaviour to you all since moving from Sydney. It has been really hard to maintain contact because of my hours and moods which all inevitably come back to my research I'm pretty sure this isn't particularly lucid for you all but I hope I made enough sense...truly insane ramblings!