i just deleted the previous post, thinking that it's too cliche... it's like a daily weather report, besides i'm recording everything down on paper. so why bother putting up these boring stuff again.
today all the summer students went for a safety day seminar, which took us the whole morning to go through stuff like radioactivity protection, WHMIS and fire hazards etc. quite boring and i fell asleep midway. anyway i should be thankful to this crappy seminar cos i didn't get enough sleep last night, and it backed up and added on to my night time sleeping hours. hoho.
there were much more ppl than i expected. the summer students occupied the whole big lecture room. anyway... i don't think i've learnt much from the seminar, but to become overworried about some nitty gritty things. i got a paper cut this morning on my right palm and the idea of E.coli cells penetrating my wound and managing to get me sick have been swhirling in my mind for the whole afternoon. the stories told in the seminars can be exaggerated although some are really scary. we were told that years ago a research lady was mercury poisoned when she handled Hg. Hg just dripped from her reaction tube onto her gloves and by the time she realised it it was already over 10 seconds which is a duration enough for Hg atoms to pass through her glove and skin. 5 months later when she started to feel dizzy and went for a blood test, the Hg level in her blood was 80 times higher than a normal person. within 2 weeks she died.
such a sad story. no wonder my family is worried a lot about my safety in the lab. my parents have a reason. i got a cold burn last friday when getting the microfuge tubes from the -88 degrees freezer. i found that i'm very casual with poisonous chemicals like EtBr as well. i should pay more attention next time. afterall i'm the person responsible for myself.
daily-work-wise i'm getting on the right track. i'm doing mostly wet labs, like streak plating, PCR and RE digestion. these stuff involves a lot of brain work tho. sometimes i've to rack my brain to vomit some protocols or plans for what kind of experiment should be carried out. shaliny is doing dry labs mostly. she's helping usheer with all the bioinformatics. poor her...
tmr's wednesday. since monday is a holiday, we only have 4 working days this week. happy happy... hohoho(should give us more long weekends tho)...
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It's probably good to tell stories like that. They get people to be more cautious :-). I stabbed myself with a needle in lab once. Thank goodness I didn't inject myself too. There's no way to reverse it once it's in the bloodstream.
oh god!!! how did you... that's scary... i'll be more careful next time...
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