10:25 pm - Tuesday 4th April 2000

Question… what happened when one gets into the habit of taking a nap between 7pm and 9 pm and you don't have after hours access to the lab?
Answer… daily diary entries!

Today was up and down and seemingly over before it had even begun. I know I got in at about 9:15 am, and except for an hour between 2 pm and 3 pm, I didn't check out until 6:00 pm. But what the heck did I do? I made some material for the 3rd year class, and I put two other hopeful but questionable reactions on. Most of the time I guess I was running around looking for starting materials. The two areas (please dear readers bear with me here for a moment) of O,M,P, comparison and chain lengthening couldn't be started because no starting materials were available… ho hum…
Anyway, to break up the poorly remembered day Red called me and we did late lunch from 2 pm to 3 pm. We had our usual chats, and she said that her Mother was being quite effusive in her praise of me, something which I guess I couldn't complain about.
The rest of the afternoon was quite slow as I had a full cupboard of reactions which couldn't be taken off until late, so I sat around a lot being bored. I got home at 6 pm, ate cereal and left-overs and crashed.
Illara is finally back online with her "Drop-Page 3" a URL which I will try to include here sometime. She had been away and had upgraded to a lap-top, so she had been having some teething problems.

Apart from that, my life is a boring series of transiently linked events of little or no consequence… ;)

12:20 pm - I take a lot of photos, much more than any of my friends. I guess my fear is that one day that's all I have to remember them…

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