Our time is almost here

[exsequar]

It's seven o'clock and I literally just got home. I spent four and a half hours doing the freaking column from HELL*. I ended up pushing over a LITER of solvent through, collecting it in over a hundred 10 mL test tubes, and my freaking product would not come through. It finally did after I made the solvent insanely polar, but the fractions were extremely dilute and it only came out for a short time, making me suspect there is not very much product in there at all, and my theoretical yield is 260 mg, which is a LOT relatively speaking. So.

In conclusion, ARGH.

I had a delicious dinner planned for tonight, but I just have zero energy. Frozen pizza it is, and yummy dinner is postponed til tomorrow. Sigh! However, said dinner will be made and shared with fabulous roommate along with some quality couch time, so things could be worse :)

The landlord has also just arrived to fix our living room wall from when the plumber made a nice gaping hole in it, so my secondary plan to veg on the couch with my pizza and finish watching "Sleepers" is also now kiboshed. Lovely!

I want to see Order of the Phoenix NOWNOWNOW. I'm seriously needing to resist the urge to go see it alone RIGHT NOW in addition to tomorrow, because I just CAN'T WAIT omg. *flailyhands*

Also, aforementioned fab roommate is currently plying me with Jose Cuervo (*waves* Hi roommate!) so you know. Life not all bad :)

*For you laypeople (aka everyone on my flist practically except jebbypal) a column is chem lab shorthand for flash column chromatography, which is a method of purification. A skinny glass tube with a filtering bottom is filled with a white powder called silica gel, and your product placed at the top. An appropriate solvent is pushed through, and the silica gel separates substances by polarity, so that each thing in your crude product comes off at a different time. Then you combine the fractions with the thing you want and remove the solvent, and voila, pure product! In theory, anyway.

Comments

[petiii.livejournal.com]

I hear you on Harry Potter. I'm going to see it tomorrow, too, and just can't WAIT! *g*

Also, ♥ Muse!

[jebbypal]

*pets*

If you want to actually do lab work in science, get used to the "omg i just fucked up" feeling followed by the "I think I can salvage this - o fuck what now?" feeling.

Heh....am I really the only person that's had advanced chem on your flist? Hee. I vaguely remember all that. I mostly remember loathing O chem since our prof had told us to memorize the formulas and that's all that was necessary. So almost failed as a result. And then whatever knowledge I did retain was erased the next year in my "pchem for dummies" (ie, none of us had taken over calc III so we couldn't do the math) lab where we didnt' find out till near the end of the semester that the fume hood we were using was broken. So i guess someday I'll find out what the side effects of xylene and tolulene poisoning are.

Weekend and your movie are almost here. Hang in there. If it will make you feel better, when you show up, i can tell you about my two miserable summers being a technician in St. Louis. That is a city you don't want to be in w/out any friends when you are underage.

[1ndependenceday.livejournal.com]

ANNNNEEEE-PANTSSS!!!!