bittersweet
Oct. 10th, 2005 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
happychemistWell, chemming today has been...disappointing.
On last Friday, I found a positive result and got excited. After getting worked up over it later in the afternoon and fearing that it was actually a false positive (which has happened to me more times than I can count), I managed to stay calm. I took the weekend off (no other reason than being incredibly lazy and too into baseball). Today I checked; I did make what I wanted to make. Yay, right? WRONG!
My problem: I made too little of it, and if I continue to try to make it this way, I'll be 50 years old before I get all the material I need to do my studies. For my laser experiments, I'll need 5 milligrams of stuff. My reaction turned out...er...5 picograms? Not evern sure if I got THAT much out of it.
Either way, another change in strategy is needed and has been duly outlined. The sad thing is, it'll be a week before I can even tell if it worked. And I'm afraid of what could happen if it didn't.
All I would like to do now is to go and hide somewhere.
High note of the day: listening to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heidimo's awesomely cool podcast. She's got really fun eclectic tastes, so if you're in the mood for something neat and new, give it a shot!
Ok, other high note of the day:sansceo and the_marchioness were on line when I got to work! (Yay for some people getting holidays!)
On last Friday, I found a positive result and got excited. After getting worked up over it later in the afternoon and fearing that it was actually a false positive (which has happened to me more times than I can count), I managed to stay calm. I took the weekend off (no other reason than being incredibly lazy and too into baseball). Today I checked; I did make what I wanted to make. Yay, right? WRONG!
My problem: I made too little of it, and if I continue to try to make it this way, I'll be 50 years old before I get all the material I need to do my studies. For my laser experiments, I'll need 5 milligrams of stuff. My reaction turned out...er...5 picograms? Not evern sure if I got THAT much out of it.
Either way, another change in strategy is needed and has been duly outlined. The sad thing is, it'll be a week before I can even tell if it worked. And I'm afraid of what could happen if it didn't.
All I would like to do now is to go and hide somewhere.
High note of the day: listening to
heidimo's awesomely cool podcast. She's got really fun eclectic tastes, so if you're in the mood for something neat and new, give it a shot!Ok, other high note of the day:
sansceo and the_marchioness were on line when I got to work! (Yay for some people getting holidays!)
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Date: 2005-10-14 05:22 am (UTC)thanks for plugging radiotelepathy! the second installment is up and the website is up, beta.
http://www.radiotelepathy.net/
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Date: 2005-10-14 04:52 pm (UTC)I also saw that you posted the playlist of last week's installment; thanks!!! That's very handy!
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