TGIF or better yet TGFIO (Thank God Friday Is Over)!

This is how my day went...I put my snails in the incubator to shed my parasites and laid out everything I need for my experimental infections. I come back to pull out my snails and one of my labmates has shoved all of my set-up out of his way to use the scope I was using when there were 3 other scopes that no one was using. I kicked him out of my spot, telling him I had my stuff set out for a reason. Then I accidentally killed all my parasites by using a new light that emitted heat and the incubator that's supposed to be at 25C was at 33C. After transferring my snails to fresh water and getting the temperature back down, I only got one snail to shed any more parasites. My intentions were to try infecting an anesthetized fish by dropping the parasites right onto it. Well, no one could tell me how long the anesthetic solution will last but obviously two weeks is too long cause my fish was as lively as ever. I did get quite a few parasites to contact the fish though. So it looks like I'll be back in the lab on Saturday mixing up new anesthetic and hoping my snails will shed!

I'm supposed to have a couple folks over for my tomato bisque soup tonight and see what Anson thinks of the flat...we're hunting for a new flatmate since Deanna is leaving me! And tomorrow I'm going to an All Black's rugby test (it's a test not a game, don't ask me why)...I'm way excited about that! Other than that I'm working as much as possible this weekend...infecting fish and cranking out a draft of another manuscript from my master's research.