I should be sleeping...

I have to work at 9am and I must be early. I need to finish the DNA that I extracted yesterday from corn leaves. The corn is part of an experiment that the graduate students are running. However, I am not great at DNA extractions. I am not even good. After running an electrophoresis gel, a separation method, one should have a band of DNA and a section of RNA. If you extracted the DNA well, you will have a clearly defined and bright DNA band. If not, like me, you will have a blurry band or no band at all. I feel bad that they are going through the hard work of collected bits of leaf tissue for analysis. And, I am wasting them by not getting proper amounts of DNA isolated. Tomorrow, I will try to extract only 5 at a time, limiting my number so the DNA has less time to degrade.

I'm starting to...well, I do believe that I am becoming ever more dumb. Today, I almost turned into the incoming lane of the mall exit and, then, could have been hit by a car in the parking lot because I was making a wide turn. I stopped, which is why I say hit by another car. I'm too accident prone and too unlucky.

I'll be meeting up with some Japanese friends tomorrow for dinner. I hope it will be fun...and that they will be talkative, especially wanting to use Japanese. (They always want to practice English with me, yet talk in Japanese to each other.) I was supposed to meet up with Justin for coffee, but I think he will end up canceling. Which is okay, since I'd be cutting work at the lab short. And, I know that my boss is expecting me to get a lot done.

I have to call my new roommate for next year and plan things out. I need to plan what I must retrieve from home since I will only be home for 2 days.

Life is so busy. And, I'm a bit sleepy.

So, I'm going to go on a diet and make sure that I am working out. And, start studying, at least one hour of chemistry, one for review of math or physics, and one for Japanese.

That's the plan. Right after sleep.