Becca here again!

Really alternatingly busy week in Prep Lab! Biggest part of my week was actually dedicated to the Scanning Electron Microscope, which was in use this past Wednesday-- not by me, obviously (wah), but by the Institute.
However! My role in the use of the SEM was purely custodial, in getting the lab ready to roll by dusting it down so the microscope didn't suffer any damage via wayward miscreant dust. I decided this merited cleaning the lab within an inch of its metaphorical life and spent a large chunk of Tuesday dusting, scrubbing, sweeping, and vacuuming. It's actually insane how much dust there was in odd places like on top of cabinets and on the sides of things like the dust collector (irony upon irony). Then again, it's amazing how much dust gets kicked up in here in one day's worth of work-- as I can see right now, two days after cleaning the lab, with it already looking as dusty as if I'd never cleaned up.
Oh well. More to clean?
So to all of you amazing volunteers who take it upon themselves to help keeping the museum looking beautiful-- you guys are totally awesome. Because it is so much work.
But I take a very weird sort of pride in making the Prep Lab look good, so then again, I suppose I don't actually mind at all.