Cool robot-based experiment failed. :( Here are good things.

Old comic characters and the end of HostessWasabi inari onigiri, OMG. Incredibly delicious treat from the convenience store. Bright green shreds of wasabi, sesame seeds, rice, all wrapped in inarizushi wrapper, which is kind of a fried tofu skin soaked in sweet marinade. Loved it ( Read more... )

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And now I have liquor. Yay! Time to relax before ridiculous pressures reassert themselves!

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There is a reasonable hypothesis that explains our screwed-up results to date. Not sure how much of the failure to think of it sooner is due to the attitude that the grad students can/should work 16h days and how much is simply that scientists are not all as smart as PI. Will have to try harder to provide own brain power in future, though that is ( Read more... )

Today it occurred to me that this whole experiment of doom could be a Cardcaptor Sakura setup in which I'm deliberately being fucked with to cause me to try my hardest and become more awesome thereby. That would be unacceptable. Admittedly my limits are not where I thought they were, but there is no actual reason for this torture. (And I think ( Read more... )

Fifteen hours of work yesterday. Not successful. Going in today for what is bound to be at least a whole day.

But, I got a postcard from baratron and a family Xmas card in the mail last night. Also M at the lab brought in a garland his wife made: little reindeer embroidered with sciencey best wishes.

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Work continues intense and not very successful. 12-hour day yesterday, going in again today for hopefully not too long. Here are some good things, though ( Read more... )

Completely wiped out today.

Language trivia: the Japanese term for wisdom teeth is no-parent teeth, since there was never a tooth in that spot before. Now I wonder what they call baby teeth: same metaphor? Totally different?

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16-hour day. Main experiment failed twice. Something that really, really shouldn't have gone wrong seems to be doing so.

AND I FEEL FINE

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