free ice-cream!

Sometime after 1.30pm, just after I thawed my restriction enzymes buffer and DNA, the whole lab was pitch black. There was a power failure and apparently it was bad enough that it involves the entire campus. Someone called the power plant and was told that it might take at least an hour. However, after about 30 minutes, the electricity was still not back yet. We couldn't really do anything..

I wanted to digest my DNA and heat-inactivate a previous digestion - I need water baths.
Steph wanted to measure DNA concentration - involves the fluorometer.
Uri wanted to run PCR - needs a thermocycler.
John was looking through his slides - needs a microscope.
and the list goes on for other people...

Then we heard that the Dairy Store is giving out free ice-cream!! It's free! Who wouldn't go for it? So we went over there, lined up for like 10 minutes and got ourselves a free single scoop of ice-cream. I didn't got my favorite - Rocky Road - I got the orange sherbet instead. But hey, it's free! So no complains. They had to do that because the ice-cream were melting and there's no way they could sell that after that. The news travelled so fast that all the ice-cream was gone within an hour.

Unfortunately, when we were done with the ice-cream, the power was still down. So we decided to pack up and leave. Everyone left and I stayed back to lock up the doors. Just as I closed the door, the electricity came back...so I ended up staying.