Yeah ... another one of those "Everything went wrong today" days! Started on a crappy note and ended on a crappy note. Its such a day wherein things go so wrong that I am sure I am gonna come last in a running race even if I am the only one participating in it.

Slept through Science 2008 after a couple of really interesting talks. Walked to lab determined to get proper DNA bands. I had a weird intuition that my PCR bands are gonna come so beautifully that even Kary Mullis would be in tears for having created such an instrument. That was 100% sure ... Kary Mullis would have been in tears after seeing my results ... he'd have told me "Dude... PCR ... such a sensitive technique ... how the hell can you screw it again?"

And the pipetting ... that was one of my skills ... they were always perfect ... but when it came to discarding the tips ... i not only discarded the tips ... but the lower end of the pipette fell into the trash ... and it happened again with another multichannel pipette my professor reluctantly gave me. With two pipettes lying in the trash ... with tips still firmly attached to them ... my professor must have had enough ... "Suhas ... stop screwing my pipettes and spoiling my DNA plates" ... my first lab rotation ... what an impression ... another round of PCR failure and my PI would love me so much that he'd probably propose to me!

But no ... i can't complain ... i have no right to be dejected ... i dare not be upset! I was the one who gave all the big talk right ... I have to just keep smiling hiding my PCR results behind my back ... and tell 'M' not to feel frustrated if her results fail :-(

But although it was easy to talk big ... i realised there was some sense in what I talked that day ... my friends saved me!

Walked with heavy footsteps back home. 'S' was there for company but she kept scolding me for everything I did or everything I did not do. My room-mate and 'S' convince me to take a break and go to their house for dinner. 'M' and 'S' stay together. I had to say 'yes' because 'S' promised me that she'll motivate me that things will really get better. 'S' kept giving me wrong directions ... and I literally banged every door I found in her apartment. Found the place to be actually wonderful ... inspite of the weird accessibility of it as its in the basement. Inspected every nook and corner ... found a clean living room and the dirtiest closet (that explains the clean living room) ... had lots of kisses ... the chocolates of course! Saw lots 'n' lots of photos ... friends who are close to me know how much I adore seeing photos ... I can spend the whole day watching photos of strangers and still not feel bored. Had good spicy dinner that night. Watched 'Rock On' till 1am but still could not figure out if Purab in that movie was gay ... and could not understand why Farhan Akhtar had family problems ... and whether that heroine or whatever in the movie was pregnant or not!

'S' kept scolding me for everything ... but these days life gets duller if I don't do something wrong and she doesn't attack me ... and 'M' ... my first friend in America ... i have to pull her leg once every ten minutes ... took a long walk back home with my roomie because we were so late that we missed the last bus ... and he was there to tell funny laboratory jokes all the time ... feels good to have good friends ... and I don't really think it ended on a crappy note!

My refrigerator is empty ... and I gotta cook to survive next week ... will have a rough time next week in lab as I do innumerable small scale PCRs ... assignments still sit heavy ... each time I step outside ... my blood forms ice crystals and I have to thaw myself and sit in the centrifuge to restore normal conditions ... and it might end up being an even more crappy week ... but i'll still have these friends who keep reminding me that PCR works only if I remember to add the enzyme ... who cook for me ... say lab jokes ... scold me for everything I do ... and end up giving proper meaning to every word I spoke that day on my presentation :-)