asstastic

so i have run literally hundreds, possibly close to a thousand, gels in my career thus far. i have never broken one, until today.

sure, they crack sometimes while drying. but literally, i was the jedi master of SDS-PAGE; i was the jam master J of gel electrophoresis. i never broke a gel while transferring it from cassette to staining tray.

natch, today this happens as i'm prying the cassette open:

not like this is a time-dependent drug release study or anything!!! not like i'm taking friday off and have to have the purity results reported by tomorrow!!!
not like i totally lost 3 hours of work and came in at 7 am for nothing. and not like i have a huge report to write instead of re-running the same damn samples.

are you sure it's not monday? cause today fucking sucks.


good thing there's a pub with guinness on tap round the corner.