Balance

Reasons why I like today's experiments:

It's one more step towards finally finishing this PhD; all being well I think I have somewhat less than 2 more experiments to do.
Lots of ice, the very large majority of which was used for entirely sensible and scientific purposes.
Being alone in the lab so there was no-one to wonder what happened to the rest of the ice.

Reasons why I don't like today's experiments:

Being alone in the lab so there was no-one to talk to during the boring bits.
I'm not finding anything new, just 'confirming' stuff I've already shown but not proved.
Tiny fiddly little 100 µl eppies, which are really too small for someone as clumsy as I am to handle.
The fact that it's taken somewhere over 12 hours in total (and I'm not quite finished yet), with no real break point in that time. I mean, there were 10 or 15-minute gaps where I could check my friends page and go to the loo, yes, but there was no point at which I could break to divide the protocol into two days.

Gah. I hope my social conditioning is sufficient to prevent me from biting the next person who asks me whether I've had a good Christmas.