My home network connection has been down since Monday morning, and so far my attempts to find exactly when the server will be back online have proved fruitless. However considering that I spend most of the day at the office (and for the last three nights a few night hours too) I'm not too desperately deprived.
Monday was quiet, Tuesday was only interrupted by coffee with Red, and today was coffee with the usual clique. Susan mentioned she had tried to contact me on the weekend but failed and I asked somewhat perplexed why she hadn't simply left a phone message on my answering machine. Heaven knows it doesn't see very much action.
The chemistry is whizzing past, as I desperately seek new tweaks and modifications to allow me to successfully get the new synthetic method underway (it's been just over a month since the inspiration sprang into my mind). I think I may have the first two steps adequately optimized, but the third (and most important) step has only worked on an analogous system. Time will soon tell. I need to get this out of the way so I can get back to "tidying up" the other loose ends.
When I was back at the lab tonight, I checked my email and got one from an old friend from my undergraduate days at Hawkesbury. Her name is Pei and she's home in Indonesia working in a paint factory. It was really great to hear from her, and I admit I'm interested in knowing what has happened to the other graduates of that year (about a dozen of us). In the same basket I guess I'm curious to know what has happened to the other people I went to school with. I admit I'm not interested enough, or do I care enough to go and search people out, but wouldn't mind if someone mentioned in passing "Oh, such-and-such is doing this now…"