danny’s space

Ah, wonderful smelly leek. How hard they are to study. Healthy leek is hard to come by in winter, but we need healthy, alive leek so that they will do the things with DNA we want them to. But supermarkets can store leek that have been pulled out of the ground in their storerooms for ages in winter without them going off, so it’s hard to find a good leek.

But the more healthy the leek, the harder it is to do another part of the experiment, even though the first part requires healthy leek. Also, younger leek are better because there’s more of a chance of seeing what we want to see, but specimen preparation is easier on older leek because the epidermis is hardier.

Hmm. Well, going into uni soon to keep playing with leek. It’s what my supervisor calls the ‘rescue plan’ - it’s gotten to that desperate stage in honours where we’re just clutching at straws, trying to think of anything to do to rescue the thesis from the depths of failure.

And the leek’s not helping.