Day in Review May 12, 2015

It’s been a mix of a day. It started with the death of a pet, one of our mice, that has been struggling for a bit. She had been fighting dermatitis to the point of extremem self harm. If I were in the lab, I would have ended her life for various reasons, mostly scientific. But at home she is a beloved pet. We got past the dermatitis and waaaas starting to regrow hair, but there was a patch of skin on her leg that was severly damaged. We had a couple of interventions because of dehydration. She was underweight. But overall, we felt that the worst was over and we could see improvement. My husband went to give her and her sisters their morning seed treat and she was gone. She’ll be buried under the bushes where others are once I get home.

The day ended in a meeting with a faculty member. We discussed what needs to be covered for the class I will be embedded in in two weeks. I will spend the next two weeks working on the outline and developing the worksheet for them to learn SciFinder. We also discussed the opportunity to have a more indepth future project where they search and find literature and synthesize and write about it. The class size is small and it would be easy to implement. The hardest part for me is to brush up on chemistry concepts.

But the day is over and I am going home. I don’t have a plan for the rest of the evening, perhaps some writing, perhaps walk the dogs. Something to clear my mind.