Dear Favorite Antibody,
Do you know why you are my favorite antibody? Because you work. Every time. I can put on you any tissue, in all permutations of blocking solution, and you always, without fail, give me clean clear bright signal, and no background to speak of. I brag about you in the lab whenever I do immunos. Did you know that? I praise your consistency to my colleagues, and I tell them all the time how much better you are than any other antibody that I have ever had.
Until today. Today you didn't work. No signal. None. What gives?
Whatever it is, I hope you get it sorted out soon. I really miss those images we used to do together.
XOXO
-AA
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- Ambivalent Academic
- Ambivalence - a state of having emotions of both positive and negative valence or of having thoughts or actions in contradiction with each other, when they are related to the same object, idea or person (for example, feeling both love and hatred for someone or something [i.e., grad school, or academia]).
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- Better Half - My sweet and charming significant other, also a very talented scientist.
- DangerDog - My contribution to our fur family. He is adorable and hyper-excitable and would probably be easier to live with if Ritalin were approved for dogs.
- GrAdvisor - My well-meaning PI/graduate advisor. We have our differences, but I can chalk most of them up to disparate communication styles, which makes it easier to live with the fall-out of our communication-fails.
- New PI - So far an awesome mentor. Needs a moniker. Will take suggestions.
- Thing 1 & Thing 2 - BH's cats. Actually, I'm not sure if they really are cats or some alien life forms bent on world domination.
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6 comments:
lolz! Now start troubleshooting!!
Antibody's old.
TAG!
"Dear AA,
it's summer. It's July. It's vacation. I will start working in August. Promise.
For now... it is relaxation....
yours,
Fantastic Antibody"
Hope it starts working soon!!
did you try offering the antibody some motherfucking Jameson?
:)
Hope it's working now!
Phizz - I thought about that but ethanols tend to kill fluorescent signal. Something that doesn't like alcohol - who knew?
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