you've got mail

so, after a tough day's work,
and successful one too, might i add,
(i think i managed to repair most of the previous damages! =D)
i came home,
checked my mailbox ,
and found that ive got a parcel at the post office to be collected.

while waiting for li sher to check out the dance schools,
i made my way to the post office.
the lady came out from the back with a really huge packaging,
i was like,
whoaa.. wat cud this be,
somebody must really love me!

i didnt even wait to reach home before opening it,
as i turned the parcel arnd,
i saw,
sender: gamsat preparation course.
i was like,
OMGGGGGG!!!
i reluctantly n very hesitantly opened the package,
only to find,
2 x 1500 pages (printed with long passages n more questions both front n bak) booklets.
GREAT!
as if i dnt hav enough to do.

those are materials for my crash course classes ill hav to attend this weekend!!
wat a dreadful friday 13th and joyful, full of surprises valentine's, huh?!
it wil be 6-9pm on friday, n 9am-6pm on sat n sun..
sigh,
a girl's gotta do wat she's gotta do to achieve her dreams, right?

at work,
i got a very shocking news,
numbers jst seem to love me.

the past week,
ive been working on 3 samples.
from mouse dissection, RNA extraction, genotyping of the tails, RNA purification, reverse transcription, PCR, more purification digests, run them on gels, collect and analyse data using densitometry.
yup, this really long, complicated to-do list,
took me a week to complete,
with only 3 samples.

today,
my dearest, beloved, elena,
told me,
mushira, uve got 108 samples, for one group of mice of the same age.
i tot, ok , i can get thru it,
to my horror,
she added, we have 6 age groups! n the younger ones, we ve got 216 samples each.
so altogether, ive got 972 samples to do all of the above,
in just 2 weeks.
(still gotta wait for d bloody enzymes)
somebody, help me!

however, she s trying to get steve (big boss) to hire me as a part-timer,
over the semester,
so that id actually hav time to finish the experiment,
n get the paper published n all.
so fingers crossed,
ill be getting paid!
n i wont hv to rush through all those samples in 2 weeks.

she was supposed to bring it up at the meeting we had today,
but steve was really mad,
n boy, was it one heated conversation they had,
with all the ideas being thrown about,
frustrations exposed,
very, very overwhelming.

ooo, ytd,
at work, everyone was soooo affected by the bushfires that had gone out of control all around melb.
hysterical, and worried,
everyone was on the phone, ringing up absolutely everyone they can think of.
i felt bad,
as i sat there just observing the chaos,
sighs of relief as those on the other end of the line answered,
and worried glances as they received news abt houses being burnt down,
relatives from whom no one has heard of.
owh wells.
thank god, everyone's alrite.

so, these are the highlights of my past coupla days!
exhilarating, aint it?
=S

ok, tennis now!
something fun, for a change =p