It's beginning!

[gryphonsegg]

I got my specimens this morning! Then I spent the rest of the scrounging up ingredients to make the medium they need to grow. I'd been hoping to have the medium ready by the time they came in, but I've been sick since Sunday. I'm feeling better now (not at 100% health, but much better than Tuesday)-- just in time to get my medium made up, except that. my lab was missing several ingredients and I had to scurry around, frantically mooching from other labs. I'll have plenty of time to do the actual medium-making tomorrow, but I still felt really anxious about it this afternoon. I think it's my sub-optimal brain chemistry trying to kick my ass again, so I've been self-awarely fighting it. I should be happy and excited about this, not frantic and worried. And even if my experiment doesn't work the way I've been hoping, at least I had to experience of realizing that the person I was asking for directions thought "trace metals" was a person.