ECG is just as it's meant to be, a visualization of life. It will only get still when you're dead.

4 August 2013

Monday: Last week, I had fun trying on my clothes. I am like some little girl trying on her mother’s wardrobe when I actually own them already. I am grateful for that moment of unadulterated bliss though it was at the expense of my microbiology review.

Tuesday: NRL-BED (National Reference Laboratory – Bacterial Enteric Diseases) received outbreak samples yesterday. Tons of work to do yesterday and where was I? So that day, I worked on samples and had my first taste of chlorophyll preserved Bangkok guavas. Yum! I was going on okay in Bench A.

Wednesday: Alternately having to change apparel for the BSC-2 (Biosafety Cabinet 2) samples got me tired. If the week before, I was having it slow and easy, now, all of them are coming at me, rushing me to learn everything or maybe that’s only how I perceived it.

Thursday: Confined to Bench A. Barely helped with BED but Ma’am Jo helped me big time.

Friday: I’m sure I missed up the whole shebang. I kept the CCDA plate in the CO2 incubator instead of putting it in the candle jar. I forgot the TCBS and SS direct plates for the stool sample. I forgot to prepare a smear for a sample. I taught the trainees assigned to Bench A wrong procedures on receiving specimens when I could have called on senior people to help. Ugh! Regardless of all those faux pas which could have cost me the favor of others in DOM, I’ll assume myself stronger now. Let me not melt easily on the heat of the spotlight. I also received my own manual.

Saturday: Cleaning and laundry day where again, the polarities are tugging on the reins one after the other; I have to control them when they are acting to my detriment. I can’t keep still! Oh Oh! But I got to watch Ice Age 4 with Sam.

Throughout the entire work week, dad was here, cooking us meals and buying us stuff. All I do is worry and I’m not even good at it. So, instead, I will pray. When I am troubled and plagued, I will pray and thank the Lord. I told Him before that I would be of praise whatever comes. I will. Still. And I know that when I do, it is not because You willed me to.