Bought a sudoku book on sale. The previous one I bought (called: "Absolutely Nasty Sudoku, Level 4") is way too hard. It leaves me feeling sad, actually. I actually counted. Of the 50 sudoku's I've tried:

• Completed: 13
  
• Screwed up: 3
  
• Left incomplete out of frustration after hours: 34

26% success rate. Ridiculous. So I bought a book which I think should be slightly easier.

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"You know you've worked too long in a lab when:"

-- Accident reports are a badge of honor
-- You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It should be clean?
         I do wonder about this...
-- You have to check the web to find out what the weather is outside
-- Although all cooking is a glorified chemistry experiment you just still can't seem to get it right
-- Safety equipment is optional unless it makes you look cool
-- Warning labels invoke curiosity rather than caution
-- You've used dry ice to cool beer down
-- You have made some kind of puppet out of a nitrile glove and kept it as a pet (Putting dry ice in makes for a rapidly expanding if short lived pet)
        Aww, a latex glove puppy :-)
-- You still get amusement out of "freezing" things in liquid nitrogen!
-- When you rejoice when grabbing a handful of eppendorfs/anything and it turns outs to be the exact number you needed.
       This is SO true. Makes my day.
-- You actually threaten your cells whilst waving a bottle of virkon.
-- When you start making patterns in your pipette tip box as you take the tips out. I made a beautiful spiral today.
        Must try. Will photograph and post if successful :-D
-- The fire alarm ceases to bug you. You only evacuate when you see the fire.
-- When you organise your kitchen cupboard contents the way you would your chemicals... all labeled in alphabetical order.
-- You have a callus on your thumb.
-- You have a callus on the side of your thumb from opening PCR tubes.
-- You open the toothpaste with one hand.
        Haha, I'm gaining so much left hand dexterity these days... because using 2 hands for opening bottles are just so inefficient. Of course.
-- You wash your hands before and after using to the washroom.
-- When you hear tween, you think of the surfactant not the age group.
-- You use the word "aliquot" in regular sentences.
-- Sometimes you momentarily vanish from social activities because of a time point.
-- Showing up at 10AM and having a coffee is a productive day.
-- You can't stand god-like physicians, while secretly wishing you had their job.
-- You're very good at diluting things.
-- You're also very good at transferring small amounts of liquid between containers.
-- You say “conjugation” instead of “sex”, and "pili" sounds dirty.
-- SOB is not an insult; it's what you grow your bugs in.
-- You say "mills" and "megs".
-- No one in your family has any idea what you do.
-- You own invitrogen t-shirts and actually wear them.
-- You've suffered carpal tunnel from the pipetman.
-- You've used Kimwipes as Kleenex.
          They ARE softer :P
-- A timer clipped to the hip is not only practical, but dead sexy.
-- You've played Battleship using tip boxes.
          What a clever idea!!
-- The front page of Science is your light reading.
-- You think the following is a quality insult: "I've seen cells more competent than you!".
-- The scent of latex reminds you of work, not play.