Today was an incredibly busy and yet spectacularly unproductive day. John from the machine shop came up with an airtight cap for the NMR rotors and I was testing it last night on some starting material I got from another lab. (We didn't have any cheap, air sensitive starting materials with good NMR handles that weren't going to catch fire ( Read more... )

Man, it's like they don't WANT us to be productive. First of all, there won't be any NMR online until Wednesday. And we can't even go near it, we have to drop our samples off because the new facility is still a construction zone ( Read more... )

Dear people who live in my apartment building:

Please BALANCE YOUR LOAD in the washing machine.

Love,

The people who live under the laundry room

Blarg to moving. BLARG I say. We have to get everyting that's getting moved by movers to Ryan's storage unit so we can get an estimate tomorrow. Which meant I had to clear off the bookshelf I'm bringing. (The books themselves are going UPS :p) I'm leaving some books behind, but my attempts to pack books have filled two more boxes and I'm not done ( Read more... )