November 1, 2005

•   I'm really sick of having nothing to do at work.  It's an on-and-off thing - some days I have way more than enough, but some days... well, I just screw around on the internet, like I'm doing right now.  See, it LOOKS like I'm working - and if my boss notices that I'm NOT working (he doesn't seem to notice all that much, since he's hardly ever in lab) I'll tell him YES!  Thanks for noticing!  Give me something to do, dammit!  (Actually, as much as I need more to keep me busy right now, this is probably a risky thing to say...) Anyway... next Friday I have an NMR experiment to run, and I can make another peptide when our lab finally gets more HOBt or HBTU or whatever chemical it is that we're missing...   

  
  

    Heh, my boss has a bright orange hippie outfit he wears every halloween - partly just to prove that he can still fit in the same clothes he wore in high-school.  Despite all the smoking, he seems to be in really good shape.  I don't mind that he smokes - it lets me track him by scent.  ("Aha, he must have just been in the lab - if I follow him to his office I can catch him!")

  
  

    Today I decided: screw looking busy, I'm leaving work and going jogging.  So I jogged six miles and now I'm back - just a few more minutes and this CD experiment will be done.  (It doesn't involve any real work, I just have to turn off the machine and collect my sample when I'm done.)

  
  

    Okay, so I guess that was the official "boring you with my work" update.

  
  

    Halloween was cool - got to see the hordes of little kids and their adoring parents swarm across U-Village shopping center like locusts.  Wow, those kids scored waaay more candy than I remember getting as a kid.  I wish there were real shopping malls where I grew up...  anyway, I also did some greekwatching, that was cool.  Apparently the frat peoples use any possible excuse to go crazy and get drunk as possible; and the sorority girls use any possible excuse to wear skimpy outfits in their continual attempts to freeze to death while walking between parties.  Nothing new, but enhanced with a lot of really crazy costumes.  Fun to watch.

  
  

    Shit, my experiment won't finish - I'm in an air-conditioned room right now... which is freakin' strange (not to mention uncomfortable) since it's less than 40 degrees outside.  It's cold enough that the crappy heater on the CD can't get my sample to 85 degrees C, so... whatever.  Screw this, I'm done.  The last data point never really matters anyway, my peptides melt long before 85.  Goodbye work.

  
  

   

  
  

  PS: Happy Birthday Greg!

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