November 14, 2002

I was in the bio lab for 5 hours today. I was doing one experiment and all the steps were essential for the next steps. At the end, I got this agar block that was supposed to show whether the experiment went well or not. I tried to transfer the agar onto another table, so that I could see the lines in the agar under the UV light., and then, I DROPPED it. Not only the agar slipped off my hands, it slided towards the edge of a table and fell off. I caught the agar by pushing it against the side of the table with my thigh but I could feel this warm agar being broken into halves on my leg…It had been 4 hours since I started the experiment, and I just felt so desperate. Of course, my professor came into the lab right then and I had to shidoro modoro explain what was going on.. This is what happens when I use agar for purposes other than eating.