It’s no Guinness, but last night, I set my personal record for the longest work day in lab at 17 hours. Between the PCR reactions, digestions, ligations, transformations, immunocytochemistry, westerns, co-immunoprecipitations, transfections, and neurite-outgrowth assays, I found only one break for lunch at noon and no dinner until 5am in the morning! Fortunately, having heard about this crazy schedule of mine, my mom and dad drove up from NYC this past weekend with loads of frozen home-cooked meals to stock up my freezer. I also took some time off to shop for some clothes and groceries to prepare me for the many late nights that now lie ahead.