Fresh Wallaby Juice

I’ve begun writing. Yay. As a tool in keeping me on track I’ve decided to start posting a quick summary of each day’s progress. It remains to be seen whether this will help me avoid procrastinating, or if it’s really just procrastination in disguise. New category (thesis) to organize all [...]

The basic problem in any experiment is choosing what to measure and how to measure it. Trying to determine the melting point of a solid, for instance, is difficult without a way to measure the temperature. Doing a pH titration using a visible indicator (phenolphthalein, etc.) is difficult if one is color blind. [...]

Nice mini-talk with my advisor yesterday, first about what I need to do and when I need to do it — data meeting mid-February, defend by the end of April — and then about postdocs. His advice is still to find something in biomedical engineering rather than chemistry. At first look, he’s got [...]

Also hard to work, or cook, or do laundry, or any number of other things I’d planned for this week. Which kind of leaves me playing catchup this weekend, unfortunately. Whine, whine.
One thing I need to do this month is my data meeting — a chance to sit down with my committee, show [...]

Jesse really wanted a new pair of hot pants for Christmas… her father made her day when he brought home the pair he found left behind at behind at the reactor where he works!

I’ve felt rather unmotivated lately — particularly when it comes to updates here. Part of this is just a lack of time; part is a lack of new stuff to write about. Still, I did resolve to either do at least one update a week, or else to post a specific reason why. [...]