Lab Diary 2.24.2009

Approximately 4PM:  This is the most and perhaps only noteworthy thing for today.  One of the nicest recordings I’ve gotten in a while.

It’s firing at about 3.3Hz, mixed tonic (the single spikes) and bursts (the parts that look like somebody with a mohawk stuck their finger in an electrical socket).  This cell lasted almost […]

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Lab Diary 2.20.2009

9:45- 11:45 Recording
11:45-1:15 Seminar (Chris Miller)
1:15-2:30 Recording
2:30-3 Lunch/Email/Internet
3-6 Fly work/impromptu meeting with PI
6-6:30 Planning project for undergraduate #3
6:30-7 Fly flipping
Notes:  So today I tried putting the recording first so as to make sure I would get to it.  Well, I definitely did get to it, but it resulted in unacceptably high stress levels and rushed […]

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Lab Diary 2.19.2009

My attempt to see where all my time goes continues…
9:30 - 10:30 New Solutions
10:30 - 11:00 Fly work
11:00 - 11:05 Yogurt
11:05 - 12:30 Electrophys prep and Undergraduates
12:30 - 2 Attempted recordings and Undergraduates
2 - 2:20  Lunch and reading Ashburner’s Drosophila
2:20 - 3:45 Wrapped up in Ashburner’s Drosophila … oops
3:45 -4  Downloaded an audiobook about Kant
4 […]

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