with any luck, today was the last day of absolute and total madness related to this particular project. on top of the day’s usual insanity, i also decided to get going on getting all that data into excel files. manually entering 72 curves consisting of 48 numbers a piece is a serious bitch. i got all stubborn and refused to leave until it was finished. sometimes i really hate myself. it took me several hours on top of the usual day’s work, even after my undergrad assistant spent a couple of hours on it too.

i stumbled, feeling nearly braindead, out of the lab and to my car; realizing that it was fairly late and i hadn’t eaten since noon. fortunately, one way to get to my cozy little apartment from the university happens to take me right past a little caesar’s full of hot ‘n’ ready pizzas for cheap. i took home a pepperoni pizza and mowed down half of it. i swear that’s small for a “large”- or i’m just used to the new york pizza place across from campus with the massive pizzas.

that’s probably my only frivolous expenditure for the week.

i had considered taking some time to put the data into my copy of the lab’s preferred data analysis software, but looking at how difficult this was to type… i think i’ll do that another day. i need rest.