Good and Bad

Good: The OB this morning said that M's herky/jerky fish-out-water fetal movements are normal neurological development and she'll do this sometimes when she's a newborn too.

Bad: I think I might have a UTI; definitely I didn't drink enough water yesterday and that's been a little funky on my bladder.

Good: The OB said that we don't have to come to the hospital with a birth plan, or if we want, just make the birth plan a list of requests or things about us that it'd be nice for the nurses to know.  I was starting to think I am weird not to have strong opinions about the labor & delivery.  I keep thinking it's better if I don't make any specific plans or get my hopes set on any specific birth experience.  The OB kind of confirmed that this is totally ok.

Bad: I got to work and found out that one of the freezers in a shared lab space 4 floors away broke, maybe a week ago, and we lost ALL of our samples for DNA research.  This includes ALL of the samples for one of my graduate student's PhD project.  She spent all fall collecting them and has a fellowship for this spring to do the genetics work, which is now completely ruined.  Oh, and last week, someone in another lab accidentally threw out all of her specimens for a subset of her project that were stored in another freezer.  She hasn't completely lost it yet, which is amazing.

Good: Thanks to the readjustment in my priorities I'm mad about it but not angry to the core, as I would have been a year ago.

Bad: We have to clean out a really disgusting and stinky broken freezer.

Good: Since I'm pregnant I can't help.

Funny:  M had hiccups this morning and again this afternoon.  What a very weird thing...