Um, Yeah, I'm Totally Wearing Gloves For This Lab

I'm really glad I totally got a lot of sleep last night and don't feel incredibly tired or anything today, because that would completely suck.

Actually, I kept having horrible dreams and waking up and not being able to get back to sleep. However, I got to talk to my friend Alicia from Clark twice in the wee hours of the Australian morning which definitely made up for the lack of sleep.

Last night was Kardi night, or the night where a bunch of Murdoch students go to the bar for cheap drinks. It's every Tuesday. Yeah, um, there were no cheap drinks when Jesse and I got there. Jesse and I spent the evening before hand sipping wine and playing cards, which was fun enough for a night in its own right.

The bar was packed with kids and terrible music. Seriously, the DJ literally didn't really know what he was doing. It made me angry watching him butcher stuff since I've done some dances back at Clark. Jesse and I each got a beer and some fruity malt beverage for 12 AUD each total. Kinda pricey, but it was sorta worth it. It was a pretty crazy experience, my first bar with people in it go crazy, dancing on the pool table.

On our way back around 11 (the bar closed at 12!), Jesse, a friend of ours, and I spotted this 4'10, 80 pound girl from the bar walking back to the village by herself. She was trashed. We ended up walking her back and helping her find her flat, which is always hard because the numbering scheme sucks in the village.

Jesse and I came back to my flat for a little while longer, hanging out in the kitchen and talking about random awesome stuff which is what we usually do. I went to bed around two, and well, as I said, didn't sleep well.

I had Micro this morning at 10:30, and then my Pollutants class following that at 11:30. The lectures were fine, but I need to do a chuck of reading tonight for them both. In the avo, after a hasty lunch of a weird mac and cheese I made from American cheese and butter (and spiral pasta), I had my first Micro lab. Thankfully, I have this with Allie and were even were assigned the same bench together, but it took a while to find it which was annoying.

Unfortunately for me, I had the most annoying punk next to me who didn't have a lab manual, nor did he know what he was doing. He spent the entire 2.5 hours asking me how to do everything and generally annoying me. I was very close to taking the 70% ethanol and force feeding him some, which would have made him blind. Thankfully for him, I didn't. Yet.

We spent the lab doing stuff I've already done before: setting up cultures. They however wanted us to do it completely different than I'm used to, like using ethanol to clean instruments, even though we pass them through the Bunsen burner to clean them. Pretty sure if I'm using fire to clean something, I don't want ANY ALCOHOL near me. It's just an additional lab hazard and it's completely unnecessary. FURTHERMORE, while we had to wear lab coats, we DIDN'T have to wear gloves. We're handling bacteria. We're going to eventually use staining agents. Why WOULDN'T we use gloves? It's a simple precaution. At Clark like I've said, I only wear my prescription glasses and gloves. No goggles, no lab coat (unless I'm feeling silly). Additionally, which country is the leader in science? America. Damn straight. No Australia. This must be the reason why.

The lab overall sucked and was extremely frustrating, but, well, I got it over with. I then got back to my room, grabbed by iPod, and went shopping for a little notebook for my Micro lab (I got a Simpsons one) and a few things at Coles, including potatoes which I used to make dinner tonight. I made a lot of pasties, which I am planning to refrigerate or freeze. So far they came out well.

After dinner, I'm gonna go read in the library. Bed after most likely. :-\ I have a 2 hour lecture at 8:30 tomorrow, and if I don't have a lab (which may or may not happen--I don't know when it is yet) I'll be done at 10:30am! Either way, I hope to apply for more jobs and hopefully see a sunset in the avo tomorrow. I'm hoping tomorrow will be a better day than today.

Today: 4

P.S. - I love how my Chinese flatmates talk in English to each other. It's so cute!