Too many carrots make your hands yellow

Despite my better judgement, I got a peapod order last night. Is it so bad to have food? Of course not. Now I have meat (mmm) and veggies and fruit and Ben and Jerry's (yum). But I also have a lot of some things, such as carrots and cucumbers. I'm thinking of possibly making this:
Carrot-Cucumber Calming Juice
(One 8-ounce juice)
The combination of carrot and cucumber is naturally cooling and soothing. This is good after a stressful day.
4 carrots
1/2 cucumber

Trim the stems off the carrots if they're not organic and cut the carrot into smaller pieces. Cut the cucumbers into quarters and strips. Process it all in the juicer.

Seems easy enough, right? My main concern is that all of a sudden all the food will start to rot, my roommate will be angry, and then we'll be *tense*. I don't want that, do you? So, my goal for this weekend is to make good use of my produce. That means I'll be cooking *looks around*...*sees empty lab*...I'll be cooking in my apartment, guys! Not in lab! No need to run away!

So I must confess that today has involved the inhalation of some not nice fumes (read: methanol, ammonium sulfate, acetic acid). I blame these for my silliness.

As some (or just one) of you may know, I got a haircut last night. It sits on my shoulders now, and it's kind of flippy. It was a nice way to end the day after I (potentially) lost data for four trials of my experiment. I'm starting to get very worried that for my entire summer, I won't have data. I don't want to repeat this experiment right away since it's incredibly time consuming, and it's also very lonely. I have to sit in the instrumentation center by myself with no form of entertainment for 2-3 hours at a time. The only accompaniment is the depressurizer (?) that goes off every two minutes. Sometimes, I pippette droplets of water onto a penny to see how many it will hold. There really isn't too much "dead time" so there's no point in reading or trying to do anything in between each scan. There's also one big issue: I know what I'm doing and what I'm looking for, but I'm not sure why I'm doing it. I don't know what a change in fluorescence means for my protein.

Oh well...

Shoot to 5:02 pm- No protein harvested this week. Half of fluorescence data is lost. Week to go down in history as FAILWEEK. On bright side, have phish food ice cream. Will eat it. Maybe make crepes.

Au revoir,
Denise