pinchpunch, tis the first of the month. earlier on this week i got an actual letter from a kind of friend i haven't seen in 6 years. it was literally one paragraph long and had pictures of squirrels and nuts and other such gaiety on it. i'm not quite sure what to write back to her about, i suppose i could go on about my thesis again, of which i still have hardly made any further progress since I last posted. but i have kind of worked out how to isolate some yellow compound using HPLC, and have virtually completed a poster that i am going to display at a conference in barcelona this september. I have also kind of aquired a visiting student who is supposed to be devoting his time here to isolating these other compounds for me, but i haven't seen him in the last two days. i hope i don't have to get the whip out.
i went home tuesday night so i could see my sister whom i hadn't seen in a month and a half on accounts of her travelling around in south america. But i didn't see her on tuesday because she went out with her friend and didn't come back until really late, and when i saw her in the morning she didn't say much to me. little brat.
i was irked by an email i got today. a friend of mine whom i'd emailed to earlier telling her i was off to france emailed me back asking me if i was going on my own. GODDAMN why do people keep asking me that? do people really think i'm so sad that i can't find people to go on holiday with? THIS is why i have to go to australia. anyway i experienced some satisfaction when i emailed her back saying as much, plus i still didn't tell her who i was going with, let her chew on that, cheeky mare. This is how i get my satisfaction people. i have also been slipping back to my old addiction, romance novels, due to the extremely long, and dry spell i have been experiencing. i want to write a love story as well, but a really cool, unconventional one. watch this space.