microscopes

I need to review bacteria!!

Yesterday, JoAnn had them try to read out their plates. Not to ID anything, just say what it looked like (they took samples from a body part- most did their arm or mouth). So she asked me to help them report it out to her and she's like "don't worry, you don't need to ID it for them"

i saw the small pinpoint white colonies on a couple plates and i was kicking myself that i couldn't remember what grew like that right away. (Staph epi.)
So for the second lab, i remembered a lot better and told a few people they had staph epi growing before she mentioned it, which was cool. i recognizing other things, too, by the end. But i really want to be a lot sharper on this stuff like i used to be. Its just hard because it's been a year since i had that lab.

Showed them how to do gram stains. And then i was paranoid during the second lab becuase they are non-MLS majors (pre med, pharm, nursing), so they don't know how to use our really good microscopes. JoAnn had casually mentioned that they'd need to go on oil with 100x, but i knew none of them knew what that meant, and if you get oil on any of the other objectives, it's a very bad thing, so i spent a lot of time teaching microscope usage. i don't think anyone hurt any of them.


i slept until 11:15 this morning! amazing.
not sure what to do today.
work, for sure, but beyond that... i don't know!
i guess the gym, but i'd rather stay here to workout. I got spoiled w. my parents gone.. bummer.