Who Says You Can't Go Home?

Hello Everyone!

Almost three weeks in already! Time sure flies when you're having fun. :)

I'm packing tonight, and tomorrow I will be boarding the bus to return home for the weekend. My brother is graduating from high school on Saturday; it makes me feel old. He will join me at Le Moyne in the fall in the 3-3 Physical Therapy program at SUNY Upstate Medical. Yup. It will be interesting...

We were able to successfully chlorinate AZT, but with IUdR (another nucleoside analog) I believe we were not so lucky. The Mass Spec returned some interesting data that I have yet to entirely decipher. At least the AZT worked; that's all we really need.

I mentioned to two of the grad students in my lab today, for the second time, that I think I want to go into Physical Chemistry. Which has absolutely nothing to do with my current research, and at that point, they asked me to leave. Not seriously, of course. Don't get me wrong, I like my current research; I'm learning a lot and I am having a great time. I just think that, down the road, I see myself in P Chem. In my retreat journal, I wrote (perhaps quoting someone, I honestly don't know and apologize for not having a source if I should), "If you end up taking the wrong path, you're more likely to end up on the right one." If you take enough wrong paths, in theory, you should end up on the right one eventually. Even if merely by process of elimination. (Here I'd make an Organic Chemistry joke about E1 or E2, but I doubt anyone would find it all that amusing. Especially if you don't know anything about Organic Chemistry.)

As I am going home for the weekend, I will be on a brief hiatus from posting, but fear not! I will be back Monday (or Sunday night if I have some extra energy). It will give my self-titled "# 1 fan" a little less to have to catch up on with her commenting, as she has been away this week. :P

Currently reading: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. The least known of the sisters. Good book, too!

Listening to: "Top of the World" by the Dixie Chicks. :) Sad, but great, song.

- Rachel