I'll just crank up this diary before I have to go for another fun and exciting run, oh yay! *not* Woke up at 9:15 am with some idiot in the kitchen making a heap of noise. Procrastinated and got into work about 10:30 pm. Worked up my reaction from yesterday and got a fine yellow powder. However there was no NMR time available until 5:00 pm so I put it to one side. Had breakfast but forgot my pills so I had to cycle back to Johns for them. I got back to work and put in the microanalysis which I'm waiting on. Nikki called to confirm lunch at 11:40 pm so I ducked out and had a bun because I was hungry again, it was probably more mental hunger than actual physical. Red called on the internal system and we chatted for a while just before 12:00 pm, seems she is still pretty frazzled over her and penny being on the break up which is sad, did my best to be entertaining but I had to go. I met Nikki for lunch and we went to God's. We chatted for over an hour, we had a good discussion of everything T*, but having to avoid any real terminology because of the crowded nature of the Café. Seems that she too is being caught up in the "up-vibe" nature of the local TG community at the moment. People are moving, making real, identifiable changes to their lives, and it's not surprising the "happiness vibe" passes from person to person in a cascading type effect. She gave me the Monkey-Magic CD, which was really nice of her, and I promised to get her something as thanks. We chatted to Heather briefly as she wandered through God's, so it was nice to see her. At about 1:10 pm we departed and Nikki was kind enough to pay for my coffee.
I got back to the lab, organized my stuff and headed over to the dermatologist. It's amazing how empty the practice was in the middle of the day, only me and one other person which was fine. The doctor had a quick look and said it seemed to be improving. I know this has got to be crap because how the heck would he remember if I don't even know if it's getting better!? Anyway, I asked if this is where it should be up to, and he said it was slower than normal, but that it wasn't uncommon for acne on the back to be like that. He seemed optimistic, so I guess I've got to go on that and trust in the kindness of the God of pharmaceuticals.
Decided to cycle into Civic to claim my money back straight away and fill my script. I was passing the Fairy-Goth and I bumped into Bridget! It was very nice to see her. She had just finished work at Data-call and was heading home. We chatted for a while, I mentioned the dermatologist appointment and she mentioned she had been on Roaccutane too and although she hadn't suffered the same hideous drying effects, a friend of hers ended up looking like a dried apricot, something I could readily identify with.
We parted ways, I flew through Medicare and dropped my script in. whilst that was processing I walked around the Canberra centre, picked up some more Vitamin C and kept myself amused. Picked up the script and headed back to the lab about 2:30 pm. I did a little work on the report, had to sort out a fuss about having to much deuterium oxide (Heavy water) but got that out of the way. The supervisor cam into the office, we shot the breeze and cleared a few things up, I really will have to fight to get all these things out of the way before he departs. Nearly forgot my NMR time which I had at 5:00 pm, I got down there and both my P31 and H1 were unusual. I looked over them back in the office, and I felt sufficient confidence to submit a sample for mass spectroscopy analysis. I will await on this before saying any more.
There is the lecture series on tomorrow, so I will have to be up disgustingly early for that. What else? No email from anyone, seems everybody is too busy or something at the moment, might have to get a stick and stir them up! I've been on the Androcur for almost three weeks now, for some reason time seems to be moving a lot slower when I think about it like that. Not even three weeks, it seems so much longer even though I have not yet got anything to show for it really. Just a few vague possible symptoms which might just be psychosomatic anyway. Oh well, must have patience, must have patience… grrr… patience can suck my shriveled… *LOL* just kidding. ;)
At least I finally have clean laundry, did a big load of it before my typical 7:30 - 10:30 pm nap. Also the room was vacuumed today thank heavens. I put all my stuff onto the couch so that the cleaner would take the hint and vacuum everywhere, thankfully she did.

1:40 am – Went for a run at 12:00 am, went to the top of Parliament house and got back at 1:00 am. Damn was I stuffed, I hadn't anticipated the run up the Parliament hill was going to be that bad! I had a yogurt covered fruit bar when I got back and wow did that taste great. Had a shower and a tangelo, and now some B.B.Q. chips and a diet coke so I'm putting back on whatever I burnt off. ;)
I declawed myself today, huge pieces of finger nail were being hacked off. Spent half an hour filing them into shape too. Got drilled by the head of department for leaving a door open on the weekend, by the end of it I felt about two inches tall.
Nevertheless, it was a really good day today and I got a lot done so hurrah! Now if I can just keep this sort of momentum up for a while, everything should be sweet! :)
2:00 am Time to go to bed now… :)