First day of work w/o Veronica around. She took the key with her apparently, so I had to get let into my “office” and the lab by April. She’s the non-sciency one of FEQL in charge of secretarial type things.

Dr. Felsot was late so I didn’t get started doing any actual work. So I was cramped for time and at 50% staff. I didn’t quite finish all my work. It’s ok though cause he had to stay until like 7 for some meeting thing, so he hopefully did enough after I left that I can keep going in the morning w/o him if he’s late again. I think if nothing else I’ll have plenty of dishes to wash.

The excitement of today, besides me officially doing every part of a plate extraction by myself… except for a delusion… still haven’t done those, was a sample fell into a water bath because a vacuum thing broke. Kinda sucks. It was on my watch and you never like to lose a sample, but Dr. dude said it wasn’t my fault. We could have technically recovered it but he decided it was too cumbersome to do so.

My sister goes back to Ohio tomorrow. Her plane takes off at like 6 am or something.

No friends have come over to bug me yet today. Consequentially I did some GRE studying. My brain still feels at diminished capacity because of this strange illness thing I’ve had, but I think it’s good that I study some. Been a while since I’ve done anything even slightly academic.

In blogging news, Adrienne Mills, long time friend of my sister and pictured below, has started a blog. I encourage you all to harass/encourage her so she joins the blogisphere for real. Oh yeah, and she just had a hair dye thing that she’s sorta unhappy with. Pretend like it’s totally visible in the picture.