These days, so many things occurred, maybe only a mosaic of short stories can cover most of them.
I know I rarely have good luck, but this time it appears even worse. Whenever my determined to do anything, so many unexpected things just pop up to challenge my “tolerance level”.
When preparing to cook a big meal for my lab colleagues last Thursday, I happened to know getting extra work to do, fixing the embryos, which means I need first move three embryos from one well onto a new petri dish, dechorionating them and deyolking, then transfer them into a 24-well plate, add the fixing solution after removing as much water as possible. If one round takes me about 20 minutes at least, not including the interval of cleaning the dish, then repeating almost 30 wells equals 10 hours and it’d been near 6pm at that moment. There is a desperate voice speaking by my side, give up bcz you have more stuff to deal with. Zhen said she felt I almost burst into tears at that moment. Thank goodness for her brilliant advice, putting all the embryos on the lid of the plate so that I can dechorionate and deyolk all of them at the same time, which saves me tremendous time and efforts. Although that night I worked till nine, rushed to the shop for those raw materials and cooked till midnight, I was still proud of that cramped evening. After all I finished everything necessary. Zhen also inspires me that never give up till the last minute and proper arrangement can have astonishing overall improvement of efficiency.
Sometimes the more eagerly you rush to one thing, the more creepy it turns out to be. I spent the entire afternoon to fix a plate of embryos but dropped it eventually when moving the roller into the cold room. How I wish the time could go back again when I would have definitely first placed the plate on the bench then moved the roller! Right now only one big lesson can be obtained from that.
The frustrating result of last project also came out last week. Though I thought to have tried my best last time, it seems there are still more problems to correct. No wonder they say we are all on the journey of learning. Fortunately I got some helping hands.
I think the essence of life is to carry on with various defects. So just be patient.
