TGIF?

I'm sweating up a storm right now. Seriously, pools of sweat are just poring down my face. I blame it on my morning run and bike ride to work in a relatively balmy 68 degree day. My morning run was supposed to be 5 miles, but I really wasn't feeling it, so I just did a out and back loop around the edge of Lake Mendota. I'll either ride the bike down to Home Depot tonight to meet John for his dinner break, or hit up the pool. The thing is, this is my "step back" week on my half marathon training plan to run a race at the end of august. Its nice to only be running 15 miles in one week, but part of me misses the 35 mile weeks I was running training for the Madison Marathon.
In lab, I'm working on PCR, this technique we use to amplify stretches of bacterial DNA, and coupling that to DGGE so I can explore the bacterial diversity of these enrichment cultures I've been working with the past few months. I'm a little nervous, just because I hear that it works really well the first few times, and then generally things hit the fan, and you can't get reproducible results when you're working with environmental samples, which would be LAME-O. Anyway, I'm going to spend a big chunk of today in lab re-hydrating the primers I ordered, and doing the PCR leg-work that I need to blast right though the DGGE next week.
Another lab plus, I'm getting my own anaerobic station, I'll have to post pictures of what it looks like, it will be super exciting, we just need to order some new parts for this piece of equipment that lets you control the gas flow rates (for H2, N2, and CO2).

By far, though, the most exciting thing happening today, is this awesome lunch I packed (err..the ingredients to make an awesome lunch and dinner). I have both a spinach, mozzarella and strawberry salad and a sourdough turkey sandwich with spinach, tomato and guacamole. Not to seem unenthusiastic or anything, but its really going to be one of the best parts of my day. Especially seeing as how John works until 11PM, and has class and work all day tomorrow (8 AM until 11:30 PM), and works sunday, so I'm pretty much on my own this weekend, which lets me get excited about my awesome meals and what I'm going to do in lab, instead of the normal fun things I have planned with the boy.
Yeah, I should probably get to work now.