Pizza and Potter

I'm getting used to everything at work, and it all fits into my usual rotation. PCR, run a gel, repeat. Today, though, was the big preparation of Pulsed-Field. I got to try out my plugs (cut them up and ran them with enzymes to digest the DNA) and make the gels. Sandra and I placed the gel in the containers and set up the 20 hour run. Hopefully it works!

I'm pretty sure the next thing on my list of things to do will be integrons. Integrons are basically carriers for genes that can move from one organism to another, inserting themselves into the new organism's DNA. It is thought that they are a major cause of multiple antibiotic resistance in bacteria. So that should be interesting, for sure.

After work, we were invited to go get pizza with the girls from the lab at Monroe's. I believe you suggested it to me a while ago, Aunt Laura. It's a really large pub, that has live music at nights, and then has a little pizza shop. The food was fantastic! We had an excellent time laughing and enjoying our pizza!


At around 6:30, Marit and I walked to the Galway Shopping Centre to the Omniplex to catch Harry Potter at 8PM. We met up with the others (Ruth, Bryan, Niamh, Dave, and Josh) at the theater and got decently good seats. The movie was fantastic! I was really impressed, and enjoyed it a whole lot. Bryan, Marit, and I walked home afterwards, discussing the books and all that jazz. It was good fun.

Once we got back, we just hung around for a bit and then I went to bed. Yay for good days!

Another, long overdue Irish saying: "go away" is used like "you're kidding". It took me a long while to get used to...cause it sounds like someone is just telling you to get lost. lol. But it's kinda fun and growing on me now!