getting back into the game

as of today, the glovebox is (nearly) up and running again. it ran out of nitrogen since it hadn’t been used since the summer, so today was spent purging it down. it’s a very finicky piece of equipment; it spiked from 80 to 500 ppm O₂ when i just started thinking about changing out the tank before i went home.

i have a feeling it’s gonna be difficult this semester to get my research done; though i only have two other classes and a semenar class, one of those classes is biochemistry, the lab of which is currently sucking up any and all free time i have. i hope i’ll be able to give my glovebox and pretty chemicals the attention they deserve…

in other news, my poster was printed out today (by the campus print shop). it’s legible and all, but i’m not sure it’s of a quality i was expecting – there are lots of jpg artifacts and pixellation going on.

~ by scififreaker on 2008.September.25.