i have been fighting with completing my dataset for the Last Experiment in Grad School since spring. these issues were caused entirely by a faulty lot of product produced by Biotech Company Who Shall Not Be Named (no, the link is not to their website, but my open letter to them.)

well, after a several-week backorder of supplies i needed to make my OWN products, i spent the 4 days making a large batch of them. and then another 3 days to do a practice run on some scrap samples.

and guess what, Biotech Company Who Shall Not Be Named?

MINE fucking WORKED. unlike your useless shit.

now i can actually finish data collection and the associated crazy set of ANOVAs with my name on in before my defense… always a good thing.