Hi everyone,

Just wanted have a moan! They turned the heating off in my dept yesterday. I am guessing it is because the undergrads have finished. It is totally freezing in my office and my supervisor wants me to work till the 23rd!!!! how evil is that?! I feel like I'm in a christmas carol :( The PC room has a different type of heating so it is warm in here. I keep coming into the PC room to defrost!

Okay moan over now.

Bastards! Let`s all officially (or unofficially) start our Christmas holidays in 50 minutes time (i.e. 5pm)

They do that at our uni too - I guess that's what I have to look forward to on Monday. The last few weeks of September (just before the start of term) can be quite chilly - that's when I really miss the undergrads!

yeah i think we should! I'm going to start protesting loudly if its still not on next week. Its made worse by a very old window with a fan it that is just effectivley a big hole which the wind blows through.

How about an equally depressing thought: I'm doing my protein purifications in the cold room at 4 C- so it's warmer outside than it is inside! Brrrr ... AND the next door lab are constantly doing comet assays which require a dark room.

There was no heating in our office yesterday - very odd as I work in a hospital so obviously there aren't hoards of people having weeks off over Christmas!