one step forward, one year's worth of steps back


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relating especially to the girl on the left. progress in lab is getting better after months of nothing... but other worries (always) pop up. like, a big one is, what if my results show that what i'm studying, is actually not important for anything? eek. good news: techniques are slowly starting to work in lab - especially the technique i'm using has been published, many times, to not be effective in my model system. but i got it to work! thank my lucky stars. bad news: it's starting to look like my hypothesis may be wrong. boo. need to repeat though.