So, my reaction mixture was pink today. It was very pretty. Too bad the product is supposed to be a white solid. I don't have a clue what I DID make, but it's not what I was trying to make. Also, the stuff that collected in the rotovap trap definitely shouldn't have been pink. The pink turned yellow when I added acetone. It was very cool whatever ( Read more... )

You know what I love about being home? LOBSTER. It is apparently dirt cheap out here right now, so we had some for supper. It was marvelous.

I am home! Ten hours of driving is REALLY LONG! Also, the people at Dunkin' Donuts put WAY too much sugar in their coffee. I was worried there wouldn't be ENOUGH sugar because I just said milk and sugar and I usually get a double double with milk. But no, it was RIDICULOUSLY sweet. Insane ( Read more... )

Chemists shouldn't be allowed in restaurants where they put paper on the tables and give you crayons. I may have covered it with chemistry doodles of working through the reaction I did the other day. I figured out where all the atoms go ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving was great fun. Jiacheng bought an entire turkey... when he lives alone. So he invited me, Ryan and one of his friends I hadn't met over to help him eat it. I brought (garlic!) mashed potatoes and brownies. And there was pie.

I am one full Ewok.

We were late because I decided I had to watch SJA before making the potatoes. :p

( Clowns? Still creepy )

Rich didn't show up to our class today, so my presentation was a lot less scary than I was worrying about. I blanked on a really easy question and wound up answering it after class, which was embarassing. :p But I led nicely into the day's lecture material, so that was kinda neat. :p Rich and I had a chat in the Cragg about how excited his dad was ( Read more... )

So, the biggest sign that I wasn't in the Maritimes any more was going to a pizza place and NOT seeing garlic fingers. It was a really strange experience, since pizza and garlic fingers is like burgers and fries down here. I keep forgetting that the things are regional. My mother insists that she'd seen them before we moved out east, but everyone ( Read more... )