So, it's the end of another long week. Wednesday morning I had my regularly scheduled meeting, and my boss chewed me out for not finishing this paper I had been working on. He then gave me his review to read (due Friday), asked for my paper to be on his desk on Monday on top of my usual week of work. I left the lab about 7 pm on both Wednesday and Thursday, and today I left about 5 pm only because the air-conditioning broke down and turned the place into a sauna. The nearest I come at work to getting undressed is taking off my lab coat and that's what happened late this afternoon. I have three out of six compounds ready to be submitted for microanalysis, and the remaining three I will need to synthesize this weekend, on top of writing up the paper. I imagine that my main hope is to cut and paste from a previous paper and insert my own results and interpretations. My boss loves to talk about crystal structures, but I have not been able to grow crystals of any of my compounds despite months of trying and so I loose a lot of discussion.
Back; an eternity ago, when I used to live in John's, I used the tiled wall in the shower to see how my hair was growing. When I would wash it the usual clumps would come out an by stretching one against the tiles I could see how it was coming along. As it was, my hair was quite curly before I was introduced to the "blow-dry" and I could never tell how long it actually was. The first time I ever had my hair blow-dried was I believe in October 1999 or thereabouts and it was so long when straight that I simply couldn't believe. Hence began my love affair with long hair. :)
So far today I've spent the majority of it at the lab working on this paper and preparing more complexes for microanalysis. The paper is due tomorrow and although I've spent a lot of time trying to knock it into shape I fully expect my boss not to be pleased with it. I'm still making additions and corrections and it has come along way from it's last iteration, I just hope his criticisms will be constructive.