Disaster

I know I have not been keeping up with current events, but let me just tell you what has happened today.

This morning I knew I had a bunch of solvent to evaporate so I got up early. However, I had a splitting headache so I went back to sleep for 20 mins...the rain was nice it helped with the sleep but not the headache. So I got up and looked in my desk drawer for feminine products....and wouldn't you know it....Aunt Susan took the last of my supply. Frustrated, I embarked on my way to work....except I got rained on very much and my para-agua kept flipping inside out. And I planned on catching the grocery store being open at 8:30....not so much. Ok, so I get into my building and ditch my stuff at my desk and bustle off happy as a clam still to the lab. I found that the stir plates were not working on one side of the lab, so Dania, one of the post-docs, called maintenance for me. Well the guys came, and started flipping some switches...and with one switch everything turned back on (yay!) and 2 seconds later, everything shut off. JJ had a matrice (round bottom flask) on the vacuum machine...and I heard a crash. He spent 1 month making the product and it was gone in two seconds. Did I mention JJ needs to write his thesis by march or he is out? Oh yeah...

Apparently there was some smoke coming from the electric box and everything just went dead. I would have cried and punched something. But, 1/2 an hour later they killed all the power to our floor, and 20 mins later everything was working swimmingly. However, my polymer film is in the process of being vacuum dried....and it keeps getting bubbles. I have reworked the same sample ~7 times. It BLOWS.

We went out for Chris Pede's birthday last night. That was kind of fun, we all went to Zahora and ate some really good paella, then we went to this churros place where we had a cup of liquid sludge with a ton of churros. It was really good, but the churros were a lot. At least it was not downpouring like it did on Monday night. THAT was fun...the Pedes came out and we walked around for 20 minutes and got completely soaked.

I need a cigarette. Or a quelude. Or something to take the edge off today. Most likely will settle for a glass (in a small cup) of red wine and probably just some sleep or an episode of Weeds....and most likely will just settle for the episode of Weeds.

Love you and miss you all, will try to increase the flow rate of my blogging.
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