plans at work are good

[cellomusette]

We had a very productive lab meeting this morning. Our lab meetings are not formalized like they are in academia. We just sit around a conference table and talk about what we did last week and what's coming up next, and ask for advice on practical issues. Today I finally got a concrete plan together for validating the flow cytometry kit. I set up an Excel spreadsheet for the validation data, and I know exactly what I have to do for reproducibility and freeze-thaw experiments. I can't tell you what a load off my mind that is. One of my weaknesses as a biogeek is that I get anxious and lose momentum when I have no plan. The hard part is over, now I can just bang out data. W00t!