A bit after my post last night I went home for a couple hour break and then headed back to school. There's been a flurry of work and excitement in the lab the last couple of days as months of effort and planning have started to come together. I've mentioned numerous times that I've been developing new hardware and software for soft matter experiments. Things have been progressing nicely, but it was only this week that I started to use these tools for actual physics investigations. And even with the best plans and preparation, there's still so much to learn from "doing".
This week I was determined to complete the experiments (or at least the first round of samples) for a journal article. I am pleased to say I got to everything on my list. Of course there's great potential I'll run follow-up tests next year, but I have data to look at and start slotting into a draft. Additionally, these measurements are the first significant pieces of my thesis, which I will also start writing in the next month.
The end of today signals the start of a two week holiday period in which our university is closed. I look forward to taking some time off, but I also hope to work from home. In addition to the writing I mentioned above, I have data to analyse, plenty of code to fix up and I even brought a tray of electronics pieces home to keep me company at my satellite desk. In the immediate future, it's time to rest, recover and plan out my next moves.
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