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A Bloodsucking We Will Go...
Jun. 2nd, 2006 02:09 pm...and it can't come soon enough. I'm done with this week.
Yesterday I was absentmindedly flicking through Crossfire (genius piece of software that has access to the Chemical Abstracts Service and therefore can find if a structure you input is known or not) looking for anything -CENSORED- attached to -CENSORED- by a -CENSORED-, having done my literature research and concluded that there really wasn't anything, so what I was doing was new.
Then, all of a sudden, there was.
One of the people I did my literature search on had produced a paper in a journal I couldn't get hold of before, but lo and behold, he reported a compound that looked strikingly like what I had been trying to do for the past couple of months.
My reaction to this was -CENSORED-.
Cue Keiran going through the paper with a fine-tooth comb and deciding whether or not my PhD was a waste of time. To my eternal relief, he concluded that nothing had actually been done before that I was doing now, and it was by no means a crisis to be addressed. He then asked why I hadn't found the paper before. I felt like citing the crap library system that means that anything not held in the building requires forms in triplicate to be made out and sent off, but didn't. It was my not chasing it up, pure and simple. Crisis averted, but I don't think he's particularly pleased with me right now - and with fairly good reason. I need some results to sort it out - maybe this random brown stuff that should be green will provide some caveatal interest.
I have just paid the first of two installments of £75 to have a sword made. This had better be one of the best things Tallows have ever come up with, or I'm going to be bloody annoyed. That said, it does - in addition to its intended user - mean that Jarreth will once again become a viable concept in Maelstrom. Now he'll be able to do something other than mince around when a fight kicks off.
Interesting idea: What interests have you listed on your profile that no-one else has? I have 'Crooked House' (after the larp system), 'detailed characerisation' (don't get me started), 'surreal conversation' (a penchant gained at Bristol), and my personal favourite - 'arboreal ninjitsu'. Sounds better than 'sneaking through forests'.
England are once again chewing through the Sri Lankan batting order like a cheap sandwich. The ball is swinging and cutting all over the place and seven of the eight wickets have been catches between direct behind and the gully. Ten years ago (before England won the ashes and cricket was fashionable), Trent Bridge was a flat track that batsmen could be expected to score on. Where did things change?
I know what I'm doing wrong - I'm assuming that Sri Lanka have batsmen. Men with the bat, maybe, but not batsmen.
Yesterday I was absentmindedly flicking through Crossfire (genius piece of software that has access to the Chemical Abstracts Service and therefore can find if a structure you input is known or not) looking for anything -CENSORED- attached to -CENSORED- by a -CENSORED-, having done my literature research and concluded that there really wasn't anything, so what I was doing was new.
Then, all of a sudden, there was.
One of the people I did my literature search on had produced a paper in a journal I couldn't get hold of before, but lo and behold, he reported a compound that looked strikingly like what I had been trying to do for the past couple of months.
My reaction to this was -CENSORED-.
Cue Keiran going through the paper with a fine-tooth comb and deciding whether or not my PhD was a waste of time. To my eternal relief, he concluded that nothing had actually been done before that I was doing now, and it was by no means a crisis to be addressed. He then asked why I hadn't found the paper before. I felt like citing the crap library system that means that anything not held in the building requires forms in triplicate to be made out and sent off, but didn't. It was my not chasing it up, pure and simple. Crisis averted, but I don't think he's particularly pleased with me right now - and with fairly good reason. I need some results to sort it out - maybe this random brown stuff that should be green will provide some caveatal interest.
I have just paid the first of two installments of £75 to have a sword made. This had better be one of the best things Tallows have ever come up with, or I'm going to be bloody annoyed. That said, it does - in addition to its intended user - mean that Jarreth will once again become a viable concept in Maelstrom. Now he'll be able to do something other than mince around when a fight kicks off.
Interesting idea: What interests have you listed on your profile that no-one else has? I have 'Crooked House' (after the larp system), 'detailed characerisation' (don't get me started), 'surreal conversation' (a penchant gained at Bristol), and my personal favourite - 'arboreal ninjitsu'. Sounds better than 'sneaking through forests'.
England are once again chewing through the Sri Lankan batting order like a cheap sandwich. The ball is swinging and cutting all over the place and seven of the eight wickets have been catches between direct behind and the gully. Ten years ago (before England won the ashes and cricket was fashionable), Trent Bridge was a flat track that batsmen could be expected to score on. Where did things change?
I know what I'm doing wrong - I'm assuming that Sri Lanka have batsmen. Men with the bat, maybe, but not batsmen.
