{"id":159,"date":"2005-03-05T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2005-03-05T12:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=159"},"modified":"2005-03-05T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2005-03-05T12:46:31","slug":"lab-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/03\/05\/lab-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true.  I just want them for their bodies.  I don&#8217;t really care about their brains.  By &#8220;them&#8221;, I meant rats of course (what did you THINK I was talking about?).  Since our animal protocol in lab has been held back by some administrative red tape recently, I&#8217;ve turned into a vulture of sorts, leeching rodent parts from other people doing dissections in neighboring labs.  It&#8217;s been tough though not only adapting to different kinds of specimens, but also to other people&#8217;s schedule.  I love the whole idea of community and collaboration in science, but sometimes, it&#8217;s just a lot more efficient working alone.  The weeks have thus felt longer and longer, and what little time I have off has mainly been spent indoors.  The lull has only been broken by occasional outings for food, and intermittent impulse buys ranging from wireless headphones to a see-thru scanner.  Looking back, buying stuff off the internet just isn&#8217;t the same as the old days, when I would spend hours scrutinizing the product packaging before pulling out my wallet.  Sometimes I feel like I should read all the retail package labels and pamphlets, just because I&#8217;m paying for it after all.  Or maybe I&#8217;m just weird.  Anyway, this month, I will also be donning a pair of white earbuds as I become assimilated into the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipod\">Ipod<\/A> collective.  Ah&#8230; So many toys, so little time&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true. I just want them for their bodies. I don&#8217;t really care about their brains. By &#8220;them&#8221;, I meant rats of course (what did you THINK I was talking about?). Since our animal protocol in lab has been held &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2005\/03\/05\/lab-updates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}