you say potato...I say "hun?"

Working in a new lab, you have to get used to their shorthand of terms. I was listening in on a conversation about the clinical protocols and how best to generate form labels for them.

Then the girl training me said something that took my brain a minute to process. Cytokine.

I know what a cytokine is. But she said it like "cyto-kene". And she claims to have taken the same immunology course I did. If she truly did, she would have heard it pronounced "cyto-kine".

Okay, I'm going to go off and scratch my head for a while.

and you didn't screw up once!

I have always loved that quote from "American Beauty".

But that's a summary of how my day went today when learning some of the clinical stuff that I will be doing tomorrow.

The best part of the clinical stuff is that you need to be here early. I got here in 30 minutes this morning. When I leave an hour later, it takes me 60-75 minutes. If only I could work this schedule every day.

But I'm enjoying doing this clinical processing stuff.