Dinosaurs

So I was in a strange world… Where people are kind of like… Beast tamers or something? They could like… Transform and have a beast magically appear that they are riding on (just think like video games), and those beast have different levels and could like jump onto high platforms, with the higher level beasts obviously being more powerful and could jump higher. I wasn’t one of those beast tamers/riders though. I’m not sure what I am, other than just the same old useless scientist that I am.

I was with my colleague X and we were on a bus. There were three beast riders who joined us and we were trying to shelter ourselves from the wild/elements on the bus. Think apocalypse scenario, but with dinosaur like beasts. And there we were, X and I. Trying to put sgRNA (that’s single guide RNA) into some sort of sample. And the first few simple constructs all failed. And X was reading through a paper when she found yet another sgRNA sequence to try and decided to take matters into her own hands and venture into the half functioning shopping center on her own to get the RNA sequence made. Yeah. Like only half of the shops in the mall was still open, the rest had shuttered/got destroyed, whatever. It was difficult times, clearly. But you could get RNA sequences made in a mall. Wow. Strange but difficult times. The construct was weird though, and required the DNA to fold over itself like three times and in a very specific configuration for the guide RNA to work. But no matter. X was the go getter and decided to copy out the sequence by hand (it’s strangely like just a 15 or 20 nt very short sequence) to bring the sequence to the mall to get it done and I was like… Erm I can take a photo of the paper for you and send it over. Why she didn’t just bring along the original paper I do not know. And I didn’t want to leave the bus because it was dangerous outside and I had no dino beasts to protect me.

The three beast riders that we ‘adopted’ onto the bus were just doing their own thing and coming and going… And it was kind of dangerous because we didn’t properly know or recognise them and they would look so different when ‘transformed’ and riding on those beasts, and it was their beast form that we knew, like that guy is the level 3 one etc… But not their regular human self. Or well more like. We knew their beasts, but not them. And then I was just… Sleeping and waking up and sleeping. At one point I woke up and there was no one else on the bus and I was like. Woah. If the bus got attacked… I would be dead….

Eventually the beast riders returned but not X. I guess it takes time to get the RNA made. But I ran out of time because I finally woke up sufficiently and could no longer continue this weird and wonky dream… Still want to go back to sleep though… But alas, it’s a work day…

Can you tell that I’ve been reading about crispr stuff all day (and evening) yesterday?