exsequar | But why's the rum gone?!

Hoo boy, it's gonna be a slow day. I wasn't able to run a reaction over the weekend because they turned off the electricity on campus, so I don't have a column to run or ANYTHING. If I'm lucky, setting up a reaction will take up the rest of the morning (a lot of that sitting and waiting for the oil bath to equilibrate) but after that, the reaction takes at least a day, so, nada until tomorrow. I can work on my paper for the summer, but that's BORING. I'm talking to Niall right now but I doubt he'll be around all day.

Right now we're kinda scrapin the bottom of the barrel in terms of supplies. My starting material, trifluridine, costs $1,300 for 10 grams, and I'm down to about half a gram of it. Meep. I'm also out of cyanoethyltetraisopropylphosphane and thus cannot run another phosphoramidite step until that gets here. And I don't know when I'm going to run out of 15N labeled ammonium chloride. Sigh! It's tough working in a poor lab.

Yes, I'm just chembabbling because I can, okay.

Last night was really fun. Rob's girlfriend Dierdre, whom I hit it off with right away (they met while I was in Dublin), spent the night at my place last night (Rob's not around) on her way to somewhere else. Her mom (who drove her here) took us out to dinner, which was lovely of her, and our waiter was an adorably charming young man named Seth. I mentioned that it was my 21st in a week because I couldn't order a beer when he was tempting me with their in-house brews, and then he wished me a happy birthday when he left the check! It was quite ridiculously sweet. I miss flirting and boys. *pouts*

So Dierdre and I had a lovely girls' night in. Her mom had left her a bottle of rum (?! her mom is kind of ridiculously awesome) so we had rum and cokes and got rather hilariously giggly. Then we had brownie sundaes and watched Atlantis - McKay and Mrs. Miller and Echoes. Lovelovelove. *rolls around in Rodney goodness* It was really fun and kind of necessary for my soul, I think.

Lalalala. *twiddles thumbs* Entertain me, o flist?? Just come say hi! *smiles pretty*

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Have you been watching the current season of Atlantis? They've had some really great episodes so far.

Hi there *waves*

I'm avoiding studying math because it's math and ewww and just blergh.

I'm also out of cyanoethyltetraisopropylphosphane and thus cannot run another phosphoramidite step until that gets here.

Oh yeah, speak Chemistry to me bb. I kind of miss my Chem days. For the amount that I kind of think Chemistry is awesome, it's kind of hilar that I'm a liberal arts major.

McKay and Mrs. Miller omg ♥

Hey sugar! Chem angst aside, it sounds like things are going nicely for you this summer. Excited to get back to school?

Excuse me while I waste the next ten minutes trying to draw cyanoethyltetraisopropylphosphane in my head. (Yes, I did just copy/paste that from your entry.) It's going to be difficult, because I don't think I know what a phosphane actually is. Is it like a silane? I think we talked about those once in orgo. But at least I can pronounce the word, which is something.

Which is to say... HI!

I think phosphane just means an organic compound with phosphorous at the center? I'm not sure. Anyway, there's one element of the structure that is not implied in the name at all, at least not to my knowledge. Maybe it's what the phosphane means. But it's a phosphorus atom with three bonds - one to an oxygen which has a cyanoethyl attached (so, P-O-CH2-CH2-CN) and then two nitrogens, each with two isopropyl groups. Hee. It's the oxygen part that I don't see in the name, do you?

HI! Geek. :)

I'm pretty sure a silane is a silicon with an oxygen attached (R-O-Si) because we talked about it as a protecting group for ethers or something, so I think the oxygen is implied. Probably.

Okay, now I'm trying to think of what chemistry you're doing with this. I forget all of organic. I need to go back to my flash cards.

HI!!
I'm actually supposed to be writing a paper right now - which, really, I should, so I can at least watch SOME of the Olympics in the evening - but I don't waaannnnnaaaa. *four years old*

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:D

Also, two adorable smiling Mikeyway pictures!

Can has (http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg148/nightparade_album/MCR%20pics/MikeyFuckinWay26.jpg) teeth! (http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg148/nightparade_album/MCR%20pics/BeautifulMikeyWay.jpg)

HI GEEFACE! *plays with his alien pinky* I have such a fondness of his hands, it's kind of ridic.

N'awwwww, MIKEY. I knew you weren't an emotionless robot as some would have! :D

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