Just another day at the office

The past week has been a relatively dull one, considering I stayed in Corvallis all week. I spent a lot of time in the lab doing more PCR and doing gel electrophoresis. Some sediment samples came in  from Italy, and they came with 15kg of dry ice (which I had a fun time with).



Some more samples came in yesterday from Belgium with more dry ice--suggestions for fun things to do with it are welcome.

After discovering there is a piano in the basement of my living facility, I spent a lot of time playing this week. Of course it sounds like it hasn't been tuned since before I was born, but it's nice to play again.



After a lot of discussion with my peers about grad schools, I've been doing some thinking and decided that I might be interested in pursuing a degree in oceanography, studying microbes in the ocean.


I know that gif doesn't have anything to do with microbes, but it came up when I searched for "the ocean" and it was too darn cute to not put in.

On Friday, we went to the movie theater and saw How to Train Your Dragon 2 (yes, a group of young adults going to see a children's movie). Afterwards we went to a supermarket called Market of Choice; it doesn't take much to amuse me when it comes to grocery stores--WV doesn't exactly have much beyond Walmart and Kroger. This store had a lot of food that came from local sources (I recognized the names from the farmer's market), and if I wasn't a struggling young adult in college, I would like to do all my shopping there.

A group of REU students went to Portland this past weekend (no room for me in the car, or I would've gone), and they brought me back some happiness in the form of sugar.

 

Next weekend we're going on another camping trip, so stay tuned for more upcoming adventures.