I'm a Loser Yes, it's that time yet again. It's photoluminescence time! Except this time, instead of only doing emission scans, I'm also doing excitation scans! Yippee! That brings it to 3 scans per film, at 8 films, and yes, this will be a longer entry. I swear, this is the most boring part of grad school. Or is it the making of solutions? Clean glassware/stirbars. Tare. Put in stuff. Write down amount. Tare. Add solvent. Write down amount. Put on stir plate. Add soln to film. Repeat about 100 times. Oh, but the exhilaration when something works is just amazing. Figure out what it all means on a chemical level is a whole other story! But today, I brought my laptop down with me, so I can write easily. It's very nice indeed. I love my lappy. So, this presentation is Friday. It looks that right afterward I will have to go to a meeting, but after that, I will go to happy hour. Hopefully I will be happy, having passed. If I haven't passed, I will be unhappy, and no amount of happy hour beers will make me happy. But I digress. The point is, beer. No, no, no, now I'm getting distracted. The point is, I am going to bring the people I work with. They know exactly how this feels, this whole grad school thing. But I also wish I had some other friends to share this with. acornotravez is a little far away, so that doesn't work, and my other friend is in Colorado, which also doesn't work. My husband hopefully will come, but other than that, I have no friends other than coworkers nearby. I suppose this makes me a little sad, because this is the perfect time to get together and share this sort of thing. I'm a loser. I have very few friends. People talk about all these weddings they go to, showers, etc, but I don't go to any. I went to Acorn's wedding and my sister's, and I really don't think my friend in Colorado will have any sort of regular wedding ever. So that means none of this happens to me. It's good financially, but I feel left out I suppose. I don't have any one I can just call up and feel comfortable and happy talking to, laughing and worry free. My data is not making any sense. Bad data! Bad data! Why can't my films be good to me? I was feeling rather frisky earlier, and I was missing Mike, and since we've deprived ourselves recently I think we will have some destressing time later. I can't wait! Please oh please let the children go to sleep quickly and peacefully. Hey, it's almost 4, which means it's donut time. All this crazy nonsense data is making me feel I need some sort of reward. God, I look at my results and want to tear out my hair. I have to figure out what it all means by Friday. I so wish this week were over. |