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nearly 3 months into this job, the inventory of our lab is up to:

1) one (1) $500k optical brain scanner
2) one (1) $100 response box

and still no f***ing computers to run anything on. activities we can do with this equipment include:

a) having awesome (+/- 5 ms) reaction times while playing a first-person shooter, thus kicking all kinds of ass, or
b) a very dangerous laser-light show

there are heartfelt promises that this will resolve itself within the next 2 weeks, but if not i'm readying the picket signs.

in happier news, all the other preparation for my study is done, and once we get the PCs in and calibrated it will be, as they say, time to rock and roll. n = 300, baby. in the mean time, i've volunteered myself for a crash course in molecular genetics lab work, which will translate into one glorious week doing PCRs and blots of all directions. exciting. i think the last time i touched a pipette was in sec 4, which might also have been the time ellen turned the bunsen burner on himself and needed to be treated with aloe vera.