So I have to apologize a bit for the delay in posting about both Val’s shower and Ray & Donel’s wedding. As soon as I got back from that trip to NJ, I’ve been working like crazy to get new data for my thesis, and more specifically, for my departmental student presentation and annual thesis committee meeting. After being really sick, and yet dragging myself into the lab for an entire weekend to get those last few bits of precious data analyzed (where my advisor saw me in the lab and knew I was sick), I spent a week basically 9-5 over at our stem cell core lab taking the UCI Stem Cell Techniques Course. Before I went home every night I would spend an hour or two in my lab either gathering data, setting up one more plate of samples to be run, or getting tables and graphs ready for my slides. I should have known things would be going downhill when I unwittingly lost about 3/4 of my presentation the middle of last week. See, I’d been going back and forth to the lab so often, I’d just been working on the copy of my presentation on my USB drive, instead of saving a local copy and working on that. So last week when I was just making one small change, I had the memory stick was plugged into Kris’s computer, which is networked in-house to my computer. His computer crashed, and somehow, when he rebooted and I “saved” my slides, only the first 15 or so actually got saved. Crap…
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