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1/17/2008

The day of a scientist

8:06a.m. Turn the light of the office on because nobody else is at work yet. Log onto your computer to check e-mail and Facebook. You have zero e-mails and many facebook messages. Facebook messages are more colourful than your garden.
8:20a.m. You have finished bloggin, or you have finished using computer. Talk to your boss and start your experiment. Alternatively, you have already started your experiment and will go on working until tea time.
9:00a.m. Your experiment is working. You are happy about everything in the world. You haven't noticed the sun outside and the temperature because you are in an air-conditioned room. You take off your gloves to rest for a short while and get back to work.
10:00a.m. You are still too busy to have tea but you decide that the centrifuge can wait. Tea and yogurt are your friends. Talk to your friends so you are relaxed.
10:20a.m. You are back working on your experiment. It's not working, or rather, it's working, but this step is tricky and require both hands. You wonder when lunch time will start. You are getting hungrier and hungrier.
12:03p.m. Lunchtime! You have put the tubes into the centrifuge so you can have a long break. Let the machine do the work for you for a short while. You leave the lab and sit under the sun. The weather is so great. Everyone is smiling. You wonder what you are going to do in the evening. You read a part of the book that you want to finish but can't. You walk around the farm. It's very hot so you need some water.
1:10p.m. Back to work. Everything is going smoothly again. However, one hour later, you find that the yield is very low and back to the drawing board with your boss.
3:20p.m. Discussion with your boss went well so you will continue working because there's nothing wrong with your experiment! Yay! Everything is working, and you can't believe your luck. Tomorrow you will have to repeat a small part of the experiment but you don't have to repeat other parts.
4:49p.m. Waiting for five o'clock. You are tiding up the bench and cleaning up the glassware. Preparing for tomorrow.
5:05p.m. You are in your car, going home. Another successful day in the lab.

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