It all started when I was working next to Clemence, the new French lab assistant and I mentioned, “The day is really dragging on.” She looked at me questioningly and asked me, “what does that mean?” I explain it to her and for the next several hours, she is using it all the time, asking me about various uses of the word ( Read more... )

We have yet another Stageire in our lab, a girl named Clemence. Clemence is an interesting person as she has her masters in chemistry and she did an internship in Japan. She is also very cute and also very competent. We end up chatting a whole lot, especially as she frequently comes to me with questions ( Read more... )

For the past two weeks, I have been living in fear. This fear was that I would soon be fired from my job. While this was an irrational fear for the most part, it did stem from two rational events that had happened. The first was the conversation that I had with my boss where he said that a new position would need to be found for me soon or else ( Read more... )

Two major things happened to me in the past fifteen minutes. One is far more major than the other.

( First (and Smaller) Thing )

Sometimes you just have to be aggravated by analytical chemists. Of course, they are usually also very amusing as well as very, very necessary for proper analysis of materials but sometimes, they make you want to slap your forehead and shout “Oy ( Read more... )

I’m in the lab. Around me are three Ph. D. chemists and 2 masters degree chemists. Between all of us, there are decades of experience and close to two thousand IQ points ( Read more... )

This is some stuff that has happened in the past several months ( Read more... )

Today, I had to make a list of every project I have worked on this year and account for every sample I have created ( Read more... )

What would you do if ( Read more... )

Three of the four days this week, I have stayed late at work (I mean late, like 7:30 pm)(I also don't get paid for overtime since I get to leave early a lot of days). Usually, this is because I have to finish a reaction of Noah's that is taking too long. Today he asked me and I told him I would only do it if it would be done by 5 or else he would ( Read more... )