Just pile it on!!

One of the rocks of the foundation of our lab has crumbled. Ningyong has moved. She has been working in our lab for almost 7 years. Her husband just accepted his first faculty position at the University of Southern Alabama so they have moved down to Mobile. Ningyong was a true workhorse. She did everything she was asked to do without complaint and did it well. I am going to miss her. Her departure was a bit sudden so we didn't have time to find a replacement for her before she left and since the hiring process at the UI takes nearly 3 months, I am going to have double the amount of work to do for a while. This means that in addition to the every day administrative stuff I normally have to do and my own research, I now also have two animal colonies to care for (one rat colony and one mouse colony) and three additional projects to work on. At least I have a job! I just hope we can somehow speed up the hiring process and get work back to normal.