Monday, May 01, 2006

To Do

At work:
  1. Transform cells, confirm transformation, assay for fusion protein
  2. Email Penn-affiliated private lab to set up payment account for hybridoma services
  3. Email Proteomics to set up logistics for affinity purification services
  4. Email commercial antibody company to inquire about new polyclonal services
  5. Finish power point presentation summarizing four years of work
  6. Make spreadsheets of all reagents, lysates, samples, etc. including location & date received/produced
  7. Make lists of contacts at biotech companies, sister labs, cores, etc.
  8. Finish 120 more files of gene normalization
Outside of work:

  1. Get PA driver's license
  2. Call Pitt to petition for in-state status for 2006-07 tuition
  3. Sort out cargo elevator reservation complications
  4. Cancel gym membership
  5. Confirm UHaul reservation
  6. Return various borrowed items to respective owners
  7. Bring home personal items from both workplaces
  8. Sell old unneeded textbooks
  9. Sort belongings into "you're coming with me!" and "no thanks, I'm done with ya"
  10. Donate "no thanks" (see #7)
  11. Pack "coming with"
  12. Put aside some "coming with" for summer vacation
  13. Purchase anything else that I need to stock up on (light bulbs, tp) so I can hit the ground running in the fall
  14. Switch home address info at: USPS, AMCAS, Pitt, Sprint, Aetna, Pharmacare
  15. Switch from Commerce to Citizen's Bank
  16. MapQuest directions from Philly to Pitt
  17. Cash out on personal leave & sort out other termination-of-employment stuff
  18. Say goodbye to friends, coworkers, roommate & favorite Philly restaurants/locations
  19. Turn in laundry card/entry scan key/mail key/apartment key
  20. Pack up the truck and peace outtahere.

Twelve more days. Eeeeeep!

2 comments:

erika lynn said...

omg, do we really have the same last day of work?! is yours may 19th?!! because MINE IS! and i never thought this day would ever come...but now that it's drawing nearer, it feels like i'm on space mountain flying as fast as possible. weird huh? i take it...you're going to begin your path to saving lives in pittsburg? BAH! WHY ARE YOU STAYING IN PA?! haha jk. i'm just a person that refuses to leave california. southern california that is.

The Owl Archimedes said...

EEEEEEEEEEEK the cat. Pardon- Periodic screaming is essential to maintain my sanity this time of year.