Hi all, I'm waiting for my pasta to cool, so I thought I would crank out another generic diary entry… ;)
I woke up about 9:45 am and got ready to take my film in for development, unfortunately I found that my bike had a flat tire, so it took me half an hour to fix that which was annoying as always. Cycled in, dropped off the film and got to the lab at about 11:00 am. Worked up the reactions which I had started on Friday, and found that the first one had not worked. Unfortunately by the time I remembered, there was no available NMR time until 5:30 pm, so I just stuffed around for most of the afternoon. At 3:00 pm I went in to collect my film, but there were a few which were washed out because the flash was too close. I wandered around the Canberra Center while I waited for them to be redone, and when I came back in 20 minutes, they looked heaps better. So I cycled back to the lab and bummed around until my NMR time came up, and thankfully that reaction appeared to have worked. I have NMR time tonight, so hopefully after I have a chance to relax I can go back to check on the third and last reaction… So, at about 6:00 pm I got my stuff together (Fortean Times arrived today) and came home. I've cooked some pasta and chatted briefly to Red on ICQ and now here I am. I will try to jump on the John's scanner later tonight and get these photos up on my site as soon as possible. They look quite nice, I'm suffering from "Big hair syndrome" and I really need to get another formal outfit which isn't black, but that's for the future…
Oh yeah, and I jumped on my scales first thing this morning and I weighed 75 kg! Hurrah!

9:45 pm – Off to the lab to set up my 13C NMR, back later…

2:00 am – Had a shocker evening trying to get these photo's scanned, it totally sucks… now I have them as tif files, but they can't be accessed normally… I'm going to go to bed…