a nice weekend

the weather is much cooler this weekend than it has been lately and i am really loving it! unfortunately we had planned on swimming at a friend's house today and it was just too cool and rainy. but i am still thankful that the oppressive heat is letting up and am looking forward to going to bed (soon) with the windows open and fan on. i hope it lasts because i would really like to get outside and do some weeding this week, and i hate to do that when it's super hot and sunny.

i was at the lab for a little while yesterday and today because i have been working on some cloning that is just not going well. i have repeated this step about 5 times over the past 2 weeks, and haven't been having any success. FINALLY when i went in and looked at the plates i had prepared on friday night, i had a bunch of colonies meaning that my ligation (probably) worked. i'll be (hopefully) confirming that tomorrow, but i finally have some hope that i will soon be done with this cassette and can move on. small victory.