This weekend was far too short. I could totally use another week or so of vacation. Still, I survived the first day back from Spring Break (not that I went anywhere, but…) and kept busy all day.

I presented at the Epigenetics Supergroup meeting this afternoon and it was pretty crappy. Tom and I were supposed to go over my slides on Friday, but he had a doctor’s appointment that kept him away from the lab from the end of my committee meeting until after I left for home. I assumed he was going to be in today — he hadn’t told us otherwise — but was wrong. That’s what I get for assuming. Apparently he has out-of-town company here this week, so he couldn’t come in until 4 this afternoon. Supergroup starts at 4, so there wasn’t really time to prepare before I had to present. Oh, and he was late. His company is going to be around for the next few days, so we’re not expecting him to be at work until Thursday. Nice, eh?

Despite being busy, I didn’t get a lot accomplished today. I was asked to go to a seminar early this afternoon (there was a lack of warm bodies, I think) and then spent the rest of the afternoon preparing for my talk. The agenda for tomorrow includes 54 minipreps (plus digestions), running gels for the total of 72 minipreps I’ve done over the past few days, labeling two LMPCR probes, starting a gel to make some Southern test strips, and mucking about in the tissue culture hood. I also have a meeting for the med school lab course I’m TAing for tomorrow afternoon over at the new building, so that’ll burn up a decent chunk of my midafternoon. I’m also going to try and do some RNA preps and RTs tomorrow, so that those are out of the way. And I need to check on that RACE kit…

Anyway, enough mindless babble for this evening. I’m going to go practice the piano for a little bit and then hit the sack early. Happy Monday, friends and neighbors.