Day 32 - Continued Weirdness

Today was very busy at work.  I woke up super early in the hopes of cashing my first salary check at the bank, but arrived there at 8:20 to discover that it didn't open until 9.  I therefore went to work and started, then went back to the bank.  

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I started sonicating my samples just after 9:30, then met Talmon at 10:30 for him to show me how to use the glow discharge machine (to make the TEM grids hydrophilic so I could deposit samples sonicated in water, as opposed to ethanol).  This means these nanotubes won't cluster together on a small area of the grid, which will make them easier to examine with the TEM next week.

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I really didn't have a very exciting day otherwise.  Around lunchtime I heard about the terrorist attack in Jerusalem, which freaked me out much more than it did everyone around me.  I tried to do some work but was really distracted, so around 3 I went to chill with Ran for a few minutes before the math cookie time, then ate yummy pastries with all the math-ers.  After this much-needed break, I looked at more images until around 6, when I had a brief chat with my professor and showed him a new (and very relevant) paper XiaoMeng had found before heading out.

When I got back to Clore I settled in for my nap.  And this is where this entry will conclude, for reasons which will tomorrow become clear.

Another interesting tidbit: welcome to the blogosphere, Joel's mom!  Enjoy a tag!

In the meantime, enjoy some Tel Aviv street art

with interesting alternate spelling