Blue Sushi is Better

This week, I've been doing things with CELLS! For most of the past couple of days, I've been doing a lot of taking notes on what to do with the MG-63 cells once we have enough of them. These notes include taking a successful live/dead assay of the cells by dying them with fluorescent stains and observing them with a fluorescent microscope. As of Monday, we have enough cells to start determining which concentration of dye would make the cells properly visible under the microscope. I stayed super late on Tuesday finally trying out all the protocols for subculturing the cells and for staining a few of them. I had a good laugh at how much smaller the hemocytometer is than I expected. It's so mini!!

Last week Mel and I wanted to go to sushi. So we told Matt and he came out with a whole bunch of recommendations--too many to process. It boiled down to two sushi places: "Blue sushi" and "Blue Reef sushi." Blue reef sushi is closer and Matt has never been there, but he has a vehement "vendetta" against it involving him saving the restaurant from an electrical fire and the owner lacking the appropriate grateful attitude and not giving Matt free food for his good deed. So we ultimately went to Blue Sushi. The waitress was super nice and we got a complimentary crab dish from the manager! It was a good day.

Then we went to ice cream in the most hipster part of Kentucky that I've ever seen. I need to go back so I can order the raspberry sorbet.

The only damper on this fun-filled week is the news that we have to do laundry in a dorm called Blazer for the rest of the summer because the laundry machines in Jewell have all mysteriously disappeared. It is nice, however, that the laundry rooms in Blazer have walls with an affectionate shade of green.