I haven't updated my blog for a LONG time. I've found that being an unfunded fourth year PhD is a time-consuming job, despite being technically unemployed. Not only have I become jaded and bitter, but my life is increasingly asocial and self-centred. My thoughts are unable to drag themselves away from the *exciting* lab experiments that pre-occupy them (and inevitably don't work) long enough to compose any meaningful or entertaining prose. Of course, that has always been the case, so what's new?
Anyway, I realised that this lack of communication with the world outside my lab room 123 was getting out of hand when my mum had to resort to sending me a facebook message to check I'm still alive. I shall endeavour to be something more resembling a human being.
Please humour me if my next few blog updates are all work-related. It's an uphill endeavour.
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the following is my attempt at lame humour.
so one day, i went dancing. the instructor said to me 'i am very smart'.
later on i discovered he was gay.
so in a sense, he is homo and also sapient.
argh i give up.
we should go for another dinner and boozing session. the last one was slightly odd with lots of random people i invited. haha
I think project write-up has addled your brain. That or too much inhalation of gun oil.
One of the post-docs in my department was telling me how they tried to make gunpowder in the lab. They even purified their own sulphur because they didn't have any stock.
gunpowder in the lab? that sounds a little dangerous. or maybe not. i remember burning a can of gunpowder the other day and it didn't blow up as i expected. apparently you need a primer (an explosive that's even more volatile) to explode and bring the pressures up high enough for it to actually be explosive (high rate of combustion propagation)
maybe that's why it didn't work. I didn't know that. Maybe he'll try gunpowder making take two. Except I think he's become quite fond of his eyebrows so he may not try again.
We're currently discussing how to make ice-cream in the lab with liquid nitrogen and a vacuum.
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