You make me smile, please stay for a while...

I used to be best friends with public transportation. No longer! My bus home friday night left 45 minutes late. The train I took back here arrived in Syracuse 70 minutes late. :(

I did have a great weekend home! I got to hang out with a bunch of my family and friends; we had much fun. Highlights of the weekend:

1. Mr. C speaking at graduation. I love him. (For those who don't know who Mr. C is, he was my gym teacher in elementary school. A big proponent of the Green Meadow motto: "It's all in the attitude.") Now retired, and soon to be remarried, he is still doing very well, and he gave the best speech the whole day. Hands down.

2. Whiffle ball at David Dickie's graduation party. The fun was compounded exponentially by the fact that his backyard was really wet and pretty muddy, which made sliding easy and stopping difficult. I was the first to fall, and it just got muddier from there, for everyone.

3. Seeing my second cousin, the littlest Allen Eugene Sicley IV. Now three, he has abandoned the headbutting he was known for at my graduation party and we had a grand old time on the playground at the park. He's adorable.

4. When I arrived back at SU, at about 11 pm, I found my towel on my bed. Tired and distressed from the fact that my stupid train was 70 minutes late, I inquired with Valerie what was going on. She informed me that she had decided to do laundry and needed some more things, so she washed my towel for me. I had meant to do laundry before I left, and I hadn't gotten around to it. I was so thrilled by this little act of kindness.

Everything in the lab is going quite well; I have been making the target compounds successfully, minus the IUdR chlorination (which we hadn't tried before anyway). Not much to note; all I did today was run the chlorinated AZT through the HPLC to purify it. That took most of the day, and then there was group meeting, where Tony gave a literature review.

Currently reading: Agnes Grey, still, but also started Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult (which is why AG is not finished). I know Picoult's books are almost a formula, but I have read them all, and they get me every time. Read one!

Listening to: "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2. Great song. The end.

- Rachel