Today was pretty good. I got up and lazed about a bit, then went to Circuit City when it opened at 10 so I could buy the sixth season of Gilmore Girls, which came out on DVD today. I don't know why, but for some reason it was on sale, so I didn't even have to pay the exorbitant amount of money they charge normally! Thrilling! Like Christmas!
I got to lab at about 11. I started my first rotation yesterday. I'm working in the Baserga lab, doing yeast two-hybrid screens to try to determine which part of Utp21 interacts with the cl-TPR of Utp6. The two proteins are part of the processome that assembles the small subunit of ribosomes in the nucleolus. It's pretty exciting, actually. There's some RNA work in the lab, and I'm learning how to do two-hybrid screens, and learning to work with yeast, and everyone in the lab is super nice. So today I did a transformation and plated some yeast. Yesterday I ordered primers, and hopefully tomorrow I can use them to do PCR to create truncated copies of Utp21 to transfect into my colonies....
Anyway.
I also got a new issue of Real Simple today. So it was really a Christmas-y sort of day. Honestly, it will take me two weeks to read the whole thing. It's monthly, dependable reading material!
Nothing else new to report... I'm loving Yale, and I'm currently pretty damn happy. I miss Santa Cruz and my friends on the left coast like you wouldn't BELIEVE, but grad school really isn't all that bad.
So that's good.
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