Day X: The Prime Directive

The staff meeting went well, mainly because of the doughnuts. A most excellent breakfast.
We also were introduced to the Horse's Ass Award, for the intern with the worst blog of the week. I wasn't worried until Bob mentioned that not just really short but also really long blogs were equally likely to receive the award. Oops. I'll have to watch myself from here on out.

Not much was accomplished before the lab meeting, mainly because so few of us were there. I worked on my transcription for a bit, reviewed the paper that Tristan gave us to read, and headed off to the meeting.

It turns out that there is a whole lot more to do in the lab than we'd initially thought. Our main task, though important, is to be set aside if Leanne needs help with an experiment. If Leanne doesn't but Jon does, we go and help him. If Jon doesn't need help but Nick does...etc. We've also got to clean up both the main rooms so Leanne and Jon have space for their participants. And we need to set up another workstation for Matt when he comes back. And finally, our Prime Directive over everything else is to help Andy or Jeff is they ask us to do something. Naturally, we all got assignments.

I have to go around and check the ethernet ports in the labs. A lot of this has been done already, but there is a long list of ports that haven't been checked in a while. We're looking to turn on some new ports so that us interns could be out of the main rooms next week, so I had to locate a couple that we could use. In fact, I found a couple that we didn't know were even activated! So, the Twiki was updated and then I set about moving more hardware to make a new workstation in the ASL room. Andy got a brand-new iMac, so I relocated his old PowerMac and set it up in the ASL room. Yeah, that's probably going to be my workstation for next week. After that, I had to leave for College and Careers, which is why my blog is so late.