The Final Countdown

Labs take forever. Literally. You get into lab at 1:15 and then get out at the end of time at which point you have to ask yourself "WWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYY?" Having a super cool lab partner helps a ton. At least you can spend from 1:15 until the end of time with someone enjoyable- so you don't want to jump out of the second story window, roll a bit and then get up running away from the building as fast as your broken leg will let you. Music also helps.

On Thursday in lab, disaster struck. We were roto-vapping what we already knew to be a rather fickle product when the keck clip broke. Now, roto-vaps have round-bottomed flasks attached to a suction thingy, spinning in a tub of water. So what happens when a roto-vap keck clip breaks? Why, all of your product goes into the water and you dump it out and try to work with what little product remained in the flask. Which is very little. Painfully little. Ultimately we ended up having to scrap the whole enterprise and just get data from another group working with our compound. Which was rather disheartening. And immensely frustrating. I mean, you spend from 1:15 to the end of time and all you have to show for it is NOTHING. Bleh. Of course, it didn't suck as much as it could have because I had "The Final Countdown" stuck in my head the entire time. :) Which would seem unfortunate, except that when I think of "The Final Countdown," I think of Gob from Arrested Development. And then I think of Arrested Development. And then I laugh. Or I just think of the sheer epic of that opening bit. And then I want to go for a long run or get into a boxing match.

So, when in lab, just think of "The Final Countdown" (or something equally awesome) and all will be well. Maybe. If you've got structurally sound keck clips.