schadenfreude

I'm pretentious as hell.

[soloristretto]

Getting BACK in shape! #howmanyhashtags #fitfam #fitness #strength #lift #weightlifting #demgainz #muscle #summer #bikinibod

[mamtagovind]

🍕🍕🍕🍕🍕

[theofficialvillian-deactivated2]

This looks so fucking amazing! @soloristretto we should make this one day because you love to cook, right. :P

[rosebudsandlace]

Eggplant, artichoke hearts, Sun-dried tomatoes, olive oil, basil, mushrooms…this looks great! I’ll teach you how to make it :-D haha

[soloristretto]

@theofficialvillian

[cwote]

[soloristretto]

One step at a time

[soloristretto]

Upside of being single: so much free time to cultivate interests! Downside of being single: unsolicited dick pics. I'm sure y'all ladies understand.

[keatonhensonwords]

(Keaton Henson)

[soloristretto]

Amazing, magical and moving, as per usual. Keaton has done it again.

[lil-patchouli]

[cancerbiophd]

fun things to do in lab

accidentally crushing a pcr tube when opening it with one hand

dropping… anything. especially an entire box of frozen samples. 

slightly too large gloves and getting them caught as you close tubes

when the magnetic spin bar spins too fast and does the thing

listening to someone else’s forgotten timer go off

“uh… what’s that smell..”

going in for a pipette tip and then overturning the entire box

16 hour time-points

srsly who invented 16 hr time-points

they’re inhumane

labelling rows and rows of 600 ul microcentrifuge tubes by hand

“we’re sorry but this reagent has been back-ordered for 3 months”

listening to the scraping noise of plastic culture flasks on metal shelves

getting your samples stuck in any sort of machine

“i need you to go and catalog every chemical we have”

cleaning cell culture incubators with aerosolized 70% ethanol 

having the fire alarms go off when you’re literally in the middle of something that can not be put down no i will perish in this fire before i forgo this damn experiment!

that sense of pure panic when you realize you miscalculated how much reagent you need

“one of your mice died and its cage mates ate half the body”

[adventuresinchemistry]

#relatable

[biochemprincess]

- pipetting small amounts of different clear reagents into your samples and then forgetting if you added it to that sample yet - trying to decipher the labeling on a tube from a lab member who is long gone - “did you read the paper for journal club?” - balancing a very sensitive centrifuge

[adventuresinchemistry]

calculating the amount of something you need to add only to realize that you did the math for the anhydrous not the hydrate you actually have

adjusting the pH of buffers for a solid half hour

“has anyone picked up packages for the last week and a half?” 

trying to figure out which pipette aid actually works

finding a bottle of the reagent you need only to find that it’s like fifteen years old and hoping it’s still good

[soloristretto]

I’M CRYING

#biology #science #lab

[paradoxicalsentiments]

hearing another person talk about the thing(s) they are most passionate is still probably the best thing ever, and always will remain so. passion is easily one of the most important attributes that anyone can have. it is hard to feel strongly about a person who doesn’t feel strongly about anything

[soloristretto]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: passion and drive are arguably the two most important factors in leading a happy life. Let the passion shine!

[observando]

[soloristretto]

So damn mentally and physically exhausted today. Why is it that public interaction is always the death of energy? Global operations, sales rep meetings, lab tech training and many, many pathogen tests. This weekend can't come fast enough! This has been my phone background for a while now. Did I mention how adorable pugs are? :-P

[hellahonest]

[soloristretto]

Really missing #ATX right now. #SXSW #texaspride #nativetexan

[soloristretto]

2-monthiversary with @mrmavsoccer <3 Cedar plank salmon, asparagus with hollandaise sauce and Lamarca sparking wine....I'm spoiled :-)

[kingdomofcolour-deactivated2017]

Keep reading

[soloristretto]

How can you "weep for the world we created" when violence is at an all time low? More visibility =/= increased incidents.

[soloristretto]

When women get angry they're called crazy, but when men get mad you fear for your life.

[kingdomofcolour-deactivated2017]

We all make mistakes. Right now, I want us back so badly.

[soloristretto]

Mistakes....

[soloristretto]

I'm a cute pepper shaker, according to kingdomofcolour.