Today was relaxing, nothing in the lab. I finished up some protocols and it was a distracting day because everyone was looking forward to the happy hour we were having for Adam, a postdoc who is leaving.
Happy hour went by and this few days are full of people leaving. Adam is leaving and Hetal's last day is tomorrow. I have only 3 more weeks left and wow, life flies by so fast. Many of my preconceived notions of what research and life in the lab have definitely been dispelled. I'll save a huge wrap-up post for when I leave here, but I thought the people here would be intimidating, but they are just people, friendly and inviting. I thought the lab was pretty stagnant as far as people coming in and out, but it's pretty fluid. Yes, some people in the lab have some people who they know better, but everyone is so friendly to each other, and that wasn't necessarily surprising, but I had never really considered a lab to be an all-around-friendly environment.
After getting home at 8pm and eating dinner, Black and Cameron and I randomly decide to go see a movie in the park. I had never seen a movie outdoors before on a big screen, and I also have never seen Roman Holiday (or any movie starring Audrey Hepburn and/or Gregory Peck, or for that matter, any movie from the 1950s and that style). It was good, not buggy, and today's weather was beautiful during the day and night.
I constantly get teased by my lab mates about how young and innocent I am. They are a good decade older than me, but I don't feel it that much. Around them, I feel like an old soul trapped in a younger body because in some ways, I feel so comfortable around them. Hetal and Christina are starting grad school, Deborah is in college, and Catherine is finishing her thesis, but despite the age gap, I love talking to them. Though Alicia is much older than me, I still have fun conversations with her and Jeni. I'll miss them. I really will.
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