My lab mate successfully defended her thesis today. I've watched two other oral defenses before this, but somehow today I'm most excited. Perhaps it was the vast body of her 5-year work which spanned from retroviral to in vivo to clinical, or maybe this was the first time I fully comprehended the talk and identified myself with her.

Have been doing intensive cloning for the past two weeks. This repetitive routine has got to stop before I lose all motivation to continue.