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I'm hungry but it's not lunch time yet. I had a banana. I need to extract DNA from some fish samples today. This has nothing to do with my being hungry. I don't eat fish.

Snape (my cat) almost started a fight with Smokey (Mum's cat) last night. I had to stick Snape in my bedroom. I told her she was getting a time-out. She's so mean to him and Smokey's so nice, I feel bad. Yesterday while I was at work, my mum said Smokey needed to use his litter box but Snape was standing in front of it. So he came over and stopped when he got near her and went "meow?" all plaintively and Snape hissed at him. Quit acting like your namesake, Snape!

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I actually got a fair bit of stuff done today. I'm going to have to leave early to take some samples in for sequencing.

Our centrifuge is broken. I've never done sequencing clean-up before but it requires a centrifuge - J. says there's also a way to do it with our vacuum manifold, which isn't broken but I have other stuff to do anyway. I'm a lot more comfortable with the 7500. I guess a huge part of that is that the 7500 requires practically no maintenance.

I had some rice stuff for lunch that my mum made. It was good. Rice, marinara sauce, veggies, soy-ground-'beef' and cheese.

Arrgh. A customer just phoned to ask when his tests are going to be done and they're not done yet. I'm running a gel with some of his right now. He ordered about 10 markers - that's more than most people ordered. See, it's these customized tests where the customer can order tests for whatever genetic markers they want and we ended up being delayed because a lot of the primers for those markers didn't work well. I thought I was going to get his done on time, though. Dangit.