8:45 pm Saturday 27th November 1999
Hmmm… four weeks to Xmas according to my diary. Guess I'd better start to think about spending exorbitant amounts of money on chintzy gifts.
Today was unexciting, got woken up with Susan and Jules moving the last of their stuff. Offered to help but was still zonked out. Did laundry and had a shave. There are some blemishes on the right-hand side of my face and I'm sure it's courtesy of the damn Roaccutane. I'm so annoyed that I'm on it for 6 more weeks… After that I bummed around, chatted to Soba on ICQ and then later to Astro. Sent him the "informing" email, should be interesting to wait on a reply.
By about 2:30 pm I headed over to the lab and did some work. I ran about 3 13C NMR's and about a dozen IR experiments. I'm rather uncertain about a fair number of the IR experiments, but thankfully they can easily be run again. That went through until about 7:00 pm when I figured I'd done enough to make up for Thursday and Friday. Came home, nobody around.
Transferred my diary entries onto disk to give to Mum when she gets here tomorrow. The microwave at home is apparently dead, so it's back to cereal and bread.
Downloaded the 52 Meg Mp3 which Jules's friend Dave uploaded to the John's server. That and the server seems to have crashed after that. It's actually really cold tonight, might be socks to bed… oh and my new blue jumper shrunk in the wash, now you can see my ugly butt…
10:15 pm - Oh yeah, that was the other thing, apparently Roaccutane causes increased hair loss… and how long have I been on this shit?!? And my screen has turned pink again, I seem to be getting used to it. Hmmm… this QV paraffin stuff I put on my lips, I wonder how much of it I've eaten over the last few months? I mean it has to go somewhere…
12:35 am - Wide awake and very bored.