Today in summary

First things first...today is the 10th day w/o a Diet coke and 4 days w/o anything caffinated! With that out of the way:) so today has been a great day...the weather outside is beautiful...I actually got out of the lab for lunch and got to enjoy it...usually a bunch of us in the program have lunch out on the steps (a big courtyard type place in the middle of all the research buildings) but today I was the first one out there so I got to enjoy some much needed time to myself...a comment from one of the upper classmen ammused me and got me thinking. He came up to me and asked why I was sitting alone, but he made it sound like it was a bad thing. So it got me thinking about how people don't treasure their time to themselves at all anymore. It sort of made me chuckle that people find sitting by oneself a bad thing. I was perfectly happy sitting in the sun by the waterfountain enjoying the beautiful day and not talking to anyone. Why does there have to be one other person or a whole group of people around me?
Anyways, continuing on with my day....I finished my ICC on whole mount intestine today and the fluorescence tag for the NMDA splice variants acutally worked out!!!!!!!!!! Yesy(the grad student in the lab that I've been working with) and I are balls to the wall happy:) This is wonderful because I helped develop the protocol for the lab and now I get my name on the paper that's being resubmitted to the Journal of Neurochem on monday!!!!!!!! However, this is fairly ironic since my first author manuscript hasn't even been submitted and my name is getting put on a paper for a rotation project:) anyways, it makes me happy b/c I've worked hard and now I am getting rewarded for it:) so all in all today has been a GREAT day!!!!!!!!!!!!!