Leaving Lansing

6.20pm at Lansing Capitol City Airport

Phew! Finally a moment of peace, quiet and just me. It’s been a pretty crazy week so far. Tom left on Friday and I planned to get two things done before I leave – conjugation of B. subtilis with my broad range plasmid and test the Actinobacteria specific primers. At the same time, trying to catch the World Cup games too. However, Ping forgot about all the packing that needs to be done and that the apartment needs to be cleaned before Ping leaves since roommate won’t be around for a while. Ping also forgot about spending time with Jer (ooppsss…maybe it’s time to say let’s not keep going? Hmm…)

As you can see, all the stuff that Ping forg0t tend to add up and in the end, Ping was rushing for time. First of all, the conjugation did not work out as Ping had hoped it would. No B. subtilis transconjugations wanna grow for Ping. :( But Ping cheered up when Actinobacteria specific primers worked!! Yay!! Now we can dig into soil DNA. All the late nights were worth it after all! But Ping wasn’t too bubbly either because Ping is not getting enough sleep. Football games three times a day means Ping can hardly get a whole lot of stuff done during the day. So Ping
has to sacrifice sleep lor. Boo hoo…

Then come Thursday. Ping skipped Sweden vs Paraguay so that Ping can go home early to start packing. But in the end, Ping got home at 7pm. Started doing laundry first. Then cleaned up the hall and kitchen, threw out all leftovers and finally the bag is packed – one big luggage to be
checked in, one knapsack with my laptop and one small cabin luggage. By then, it was 4.30am!!!

On Friday morning, woke up at 8.30am, looked over the luggage to make sure Ping brought everything and then went to lab to finish preparing the 16S rDNA for sequencing whenever boss gives the green light. By time Ping got done, it was 4pm. Went home to shower and TT fetched Ping to the airport at 5pm, leaving Ping’s car under the care of UL. Finally, Ping just have to sit and wait for the boarding, not having to think about what’s next and how much time Ping has.