Day 18: 95 tubes of legs on the table (to be sung to the tune of 100 bottles of beer on the wall)

Okay, so for as much as I was on time on Monday I was LATE on Wednesday. I was meaning to get there at 10am, the usual, and instead arrived at about 10:45. Woops! But it was okay, as usual. I started off the day editing the tons of photos I took with the tripod the day before and worked to make them the best they could be :) The morning went by quickly and soon it was lunchtime. I haven't mentioned it, but lunch has now turned into PBJ, rice cakes, and water - without fail, everyday. Surprisingly I have yet to get bored of it, so since its easy and cheap I'll keep going with it till I do. I normally just eat in his office (and when I say his office I mean the entire upper floor of the building, so no, it's not a bit cramped. I eat and read and generally get right back to work. Once the editing was done Andrew decided it would be a good idea to start compiling plates of specimen to be sent in large quantities to the Canadian lab. So, I commenced on that project. Basically I have a plate that has 96 small tubes. Each tube is filled with a few drops of ethanol and one by one I take the specimen (who are all pinned ie. dead), and with tweezers pluck a leg from them and place it into the corresponding tube. Once all 95 tubes are filled and closed (the last one is left blank) the plate is complete and ready to be sent off. Its a very meticulous process because you can't lose your place on the plate nor on which specimen you are on. Additionally, you have to be very careful of preventing cross-contamination because if the dna from one gets into the other tube the dna coding is worthless. So between every specimen I put ethanol on the tweezers and burn it off, destroying any hint of the previous moth. After completing about a plate and a half I looked up and realized it was 5pm - time to go! So I packed up and skidaddled right out of there. What did I do in the evening, you ask.... NADA, Zilch, Nufin', Zero. I chilled, thought about doing laundry but didn't actually do it, thought about going to rent a movie but watched one on TV instead, considered walking to the harbor but decided that the couch was too comfy and the pjs were too awesome. Wednesday night - relaxin and chillaxin.