Woke up at about midnight and was in lab by 1:00 am.. I'm pretty much working in Pacific Standard Time now. Been in lab for the past 10 hours working on my samples still... with a batch of 8 (actually 32) in an acid wash. After that's done, I'll be heading home to get some rest as I've managed to catch a mild cold-- just a cough and a sore throat that's been building through the weekend.
Kuni has mentioned to me that I can buy cold medicine from the University clinic for about $1. Incredibly cheap. Then there is breakfast, that goes for $3 for a full meal. I keep meaning to bring my camera to take pictures but I haven't remembered to so far.
The weekend was pretty good. Had a hot-pot dinner at home with friends Saturday night and then had a second hot-pot at another friend's for the Sunday night with the left overs I had from the previous day.
Unfortunately, I haven't been resting right since going on this nocturnal schedule-- I usually end up sleeping for 1.5 hours at 8:30 am, catch breakfast, then go home and sleep until about 4 pm. Wake up, go to University for a little bit... catch dinner, return home by about 8:00 pm, sleep till about midnight and then return again to lab at about 1 am to work a long haul through the night.
I've got about 10 days to pull something off (ie. get some results and write an abstract) for the conference in France. This is probably one of the biggest conferences for my field and it would definitely be cool if I can make it out there for about a week (perhaps, 5 days?) with expenses fully (mostly?) paid to hang out with smart people in France... in particular Lyon (which is well known for the food).
It's work that I have to get done anyways. Better now than later (with the bonus of the conference). I can even use the results for my Master thesis. It's win-win all around. Can't wait for all this to be over though, I could use a good break.
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