1:39 am: still in lab. listening to the ramones' mondo bizarro. all of the lyrics speak to me right now. in particular:

"this is the job that ate my brain..."

"i've got the strength to endure..."

"it's gonna be alright. it's gonna be okay..."

getting a bit hungry. i have ginger cookies and pecan butter tarts in the lab, but don't particularly feel like eating either. want something savoury. wish i'd brought some mini-babybels. they have cheddar mini-babybels now. eww.

finding different ways to avoid figuring out spectral normalization ranges.

stuck here for the long haul, 'cause there's no bus that runs home anymore.

i wonder how long i can keep this up.

it really isn't all that late for me -- i usually don't go to bed until about 2, but i'm so fuckin' tired right now.

uh, hmm. want to know where i can get some decent hemp string. could make hemp jewellery for the first MOMpop. macrame dragonflies are cool and kid-friendly...

1:52 am: got a lozenge for my throat.

2:21 am: just finished looking at normalization ranges for my spectra. realized that i wasted a shitload of time following the boss's orders when i could have taken fewer scans. batteries in my flashlight dying. saying 'screw it' to laser goggles. only putting them on when aligning.

so fucking tired.

(incidentally, this isn't updated in real-time because i only have
netscape on this computer and the new blogger interface is still kind of fucked up.)

been using the mouse so much my index finger actually smarts. using middle finger as crutch.

missed supersize me tonight. will try to catch it in the coming weeks.

3:58 am: still taking scans. paul simon is saving my sanity. i have the doors here, too, but i think they might lull me to sleep. i'm doing okay, actually. we'll see what happens when i hit the inevitable wall. my spectra look strange, though. *shrug*. first bus out of here leaves at 5:47. i don't even know if i'll be done by then.

if you'll be my bodyguard, i can be your long-lost pal...

4:11 am: ate two stale ginger cookies.

need water.

4:24 am: wishing i'd brought a blanket or something.

4:37 am: eating a bag of vending machine hickory sticks. probably not the best for my throat. glad it's not raining. would i ever be in a shitty mood if i had to go home cold and wet in the morning.

5:05 am: outlasted DA. wow.

heeheeheeheehee...at the giddy stage of exhaustion.

5:37 am: just missed the first bus leaving campus with 6 scans to go. briefly left the lab to discover that it's completely light out.

6:07 am: one scan left...!

6:20 am: done. everything's turned off. files are uploading. just have to get sample back into the cleanroom.

6:43 am: wrote e-mail to supervisor. trying to publish this entry but blogger page is unhappy. try again later. ready to go home.