Do you know the song which goes like "just another manic monday.." Well i guess it doesn't sync with what i felt this monday. When I woke up today I was feeling so happy because I get a new day to work. It sounds odd but I really feel happy about having a new day. Today early, I prayed to God to help me make new friends and to help me with my research. Interestingly, God answered me back about the first onegai koto. He questioned, "how can you make friends if you don't spend some time with the people you want to be friends with?" I realized that He was right. I have to have some time for them. So I did the impossible. I asked them all out to lunch. This is quite embarrassing and difficult for me. Actually I don't want to eat with these people. I can't really follow their conversations and they don't really talk with me during lunch ( i feel like a spirit ghost -- as if they don't see me). But I followed God anyway...
Yea, so today, I invited them to lunch but in the end only three people went. That was the H., K., and me.
(I'm not giving any names to be safe... LOL!) When i asked them for having lunch, I could just see they were soooo delighted. Not to exaggerate, but I really saw them smile. LOL.
I realized, these people are people. They're not robots as I thought. LOL. =)) Even though they act like robots, never talk and just work all day (which btw drives me crazy), they are not. They are people; they have feelings. They tried talking to me during lunch and I was laughing inside my head because I realized they were like little children. LOL.
Oh I forgot to mention what happened in the morning...
Well from 9 to 1130, I just did column chromatography. Maybe i had about what? like 4.0grams of raw material? I forgot. Also, I combined and summarized all the compounds i have synthesized and put the same ones in only one sample tube. This would help me organize all my compounds.
After lunch, I finished my column, and started a new reaction. It's not really new, in fact, i have done it n times. I did two reactions in the afternoon in huge scales. The first one is a 5 gram scale and the second reaction was in 15.0gram scale. That's amazing and not to mention tiring.
hmmm what else... I washed and washed and washed glassware,... LOL
I didnt have the time to read some literature today, or even textbook. I couldn't even go down to register my bicycle as a handai bicycle. I didn't have so much time to sit down today because I was doing experiments the whole day.
by the way, I hate handling halogens!!! They suck.
Especially bromine. It just has to be in the hood. and you just have to have gloves. today I had two gloves worn on each of my hands. I don't want any spills. It's understandable. I just used 19grams of bromine. And thats a huge amount.
Iodine is not as dangerous as bromine, but i hate the stain of iodine which takes like 2 to 3 weeks before its totally removed (I've had miserable experiences with iodine). I hate the HI acid which is produced when it reacts with water. It made my hand suffer for 2 weeks, if i remember correctly.
It's almost 10 and I feel like a total zombie now. I got home 930pm I am so tired and sleepy.
What a day.... it was just soooooooper.
P.s, i forgot to mention what was his name i forgot his name ... ahhhhh i remember.. anyway... this guy, he was so kind.. i think he wants to be friends.. LOL... so today i found some new friends i guess. I gave them chocnut. this omiyage i gave them from my country. It is like the meiji chocolate of my country.
snooze... ZZZZZZZZ bye.
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