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pcktknife · 2 years
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d3ndroica · 6 years
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Big Apple 7
Hey folks. I had hoped to post the next Big Apple chapter today. But it wasn’t done yet. So instead of not posting anything, I’m posting the first half of it.  Apologies if it needed more editing. :) Part 1     Part 2      Part 3     Part 4     Part 5     Part 6
After leaving the coffee shop, Madge was late to work. Luckily nobody seemed to notice. She did a few things at her desk and then headed to the lab to check on her cells. Just her luck, as she examined them she noticed signs of contamination. Contamination meant they’d be no good and she’d have to start over, but first she had to triple check everything was sterile and see if she could find the source of the contamination. She didn’t get a lunch break until after 2, and then her coworker Bea wanted to meet to go over what she’d found, and what supplies and reagents would need to be ordered. The day flew by. There was a light drizzle on the way home, hurrying her. She got home and realized she still needed groceries, and decided to scrounge instead of going out again. She texted with Thom. His show had ended so he was officially back to hunting for the next part, while sustaining himself on his crappy day jobs. They talked about doing something over the weekend, but Thom was feeling broke and didn’t want to spend any money.
Wednesday was more drizzle, gray and gloomy. Madge made some progress in the lab prepping for her next attempt at the protocols, but there wasn’t much on her work to do. Unless she wanted to have to come in on both Saturday and Sunday, she needed to wait until later in the week for the incubation series. No Thank You. So she talked with Bea and they agreed on a schedule. The afternoon was busy helping with general lab maintenance and discussing a protocol, microscope imaging, and results from an earlier experiment.
By Thursday morning the drizzle had lifted but the forecast held more rain. Cold and wet. Madge glowered at the thought. She was still grumpy about her experiment getting off to a bad start, even though Bea had told her not to worry about it. Then on her way into work, her umbrella was caught in a gust of wind and flipped inside out. She’d forgotten her headphones. But she made it to work and got through most of her lab duties before lunch, prepping a new set of cell cultures for her protocol. In the afternoon, she took care of emails and worked on some of the journal articles that were on her reading list.
Madge 2:10pm @ work? Gale 2:43pm how’d you guess Madge 2:49pm :P How’s it going? Gale 2:55pm ok, you?
Madge sighed. She didn’t want to get into her troubles.
Madge 2:58pm OK. Finished my lab work for today. Waiting to see if the rain will let up.
Gale 3:08pm doubt it ☔️
Madge 3:10pm Yeah :( :( cold & wet is the worst
Gale 3:15pm u need more coffee to warm up? ☕️ 😏
Madge 3:17pm So tempting. Too bad we don’t work closer. I guess the coffee in the lab kitchen’ll have to do.
Gale 3:23pm going into a meeting… ttyl
Madge 3:24pm Later
When she left work, she had little choice but to persevere through the rain and get groceries, hurrying home before everything was sodden. Quickly she worked to get it all packed away in the kitchen. She indulged in multiple mugs of hot tea, listening to classical music in her room. After she was warm, she indulged in reading some of a romance novel she’d picked up recently. She skimmed through until she found the next sex scene. After reading through, she set the book down and focused her attention on herself, masturbating to her mental recall from the book … which morphed into imagining Gale’s hands and mouth on her, a private bastardization of the book’s images. She came quietly, and then tried not to think about the ramifications of her sex fantasy. Instead she cleaned up and got some dinner. Later while she was watching tv a text arrived from him.
Gale 9:42pm hey
She wondered if she should feel bad for picturing him earlier. “He’s not going to know,” she chided herself.
Madge 9:46pm Hi :) How are you?
Gale 9:48pm ok. you?
Madge 9:51pm Yeah. I got so wet today Major umbrella malfunction :-0
Gale 9:54pm good night to stay in.
Madge 9:55pm Yeah. I’m just vegging now.
Gale 9:56pm same
Madge 9:56pm What are you watching? The 100?
Gale 9:59pm lol, no kimmy schmidt I needed a break from apocalypse drama
Madge 10:00pm Haha, I love that show I looked for the 100 but cant find s1 anywhere
Gale 10:01pm oh yeah? I have it streaming if you want to watch sometime.
Madge 10:04pm Yeah definitely
Gale 10:07pm How’s the lab?
Madge 10:10pm Had to start protocol over :(  My cells got contaminated. :( I think it was a nonsterile reagent. When I checked them yesterday there was cytoplasmic vacuolation. I had to dump everything restart the protocol with fresh cells from the cryostore. And I still have to learn the protocols for DNA microsatellite fingerprinting to check for cross-contamination.
Gale 10:12pm wow well … that sucks
Gale 10:14pm supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Madge 10:15pm ?? It’s like the opposite of that.
Gale 10:16pm just showing you I can use big words too 😎😉 Madge 10:17pm Thats adorable Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious Omg i can’t believe i remember that
Gale 10:19pm um if you say it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious? hmm is precocious supposed to be a good thing?
Madge 10:21pm umm Perspicacious would be better Or pulchritudinous but you can’t really control that  ;-)
Gale 10:23pm Now you’re just showing off Madge 10:24pm Who me?? 😇 If you’re trying to distract me from work failure its working :) So thanks
Gale 10:17pm 😉 np
Madge 10:21pm You want to do something saturday?
Gale 10:23pm Sure what were you thinking?
Madge 10:26pm IDK maybe Morningside park if weather is decent? And I owe you a dinner (finally got paid!!)
Gale 10:27pm sounds good lemme know what time you’re thinking
Gale 10:29pm roomie wants something … ttyl?
Madge 10:29pm Gnite
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