Work today went pretty smoothly! Started forming the paracyclophane diketones! Pretty much ran the whole thing under reflux for the whole day... Our glassware situation is absolutely horrible though. We basically have no clean glassware (it goes off to the wash and never comes back) and no spatulas... We've actually resorted to cleaning our own glassware now haha. Which you know, sounds normal for like a college lab but it's pretty sad for a huge research facility...
Had another Exec Speaker Series! Senior VP of R/D this time. =] He was pretty awesome - basically turned the entire presentation into a Q/A. Checked out the cafe with Lucy afterward - we actually have options! Apparently the old cafe (before the temp one in ASF5) was way better but this one's pretty good, especially in comparison to the temp one...
Lucy and I stopped by Ali Baba (a Mediterranean restaurant on the bike back that *always* smells amazing) and got some delicious food. Grabbed more Cold Stone afterward from the mall too haha.
We talked a bit with a guy playing guitar outside the BART station named Frank. Seemed like a really nice guy, he's trying to save up some money to take his girlfriend up to the city for a day. He sang us a few songs, talked a bit about some random things. He comes by every once in a while, so hopefully we'll see him again!
A pretty good day today. Tiring, but satisfying. Time to read for a bit then sleep. =]
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