First lab day in the Inorganic sector

I woke up really early this morning, 7:05am despite the first alarm going off at 7:00am. Somehow I still end up leaving the house at 8:15am which guarantees that I'd be late. I had been doing that the past few days and walking into the lab 10 minutes late wasn't a really good idea, though I had been prepared for a told off. I might have reached there 5 minutes past the hour but it was pouring in rain and so the traffic was terrible.

I might have mentioned not too long ago about a lab partner. That partnership ended for eternity. The early part of the lab felt awkward but that was about it. I didn't honestly cared, a little certainly as he did compensate for some of my strange anxieties; second pair of eyes on the decisions. I am too clumsy. I nearly ruined my outcome. (I think I already have.) I ended up being the fastest out of my tutor group though not without chaos and confusion. I just don't like taking my time which is really bad. The day ended with me being 10 minutes later than the rest of people doing the same experiment. There would have been plenty of time to reprecipitate if the compound actually dissolved in the usual time of about 5 minutes but it took ages with I-don't-know-how-many-times over the supposed minimum amount and that was with just the acetone. So 5 minutes before the lab session was over I had to rotary evaporate the solution just so that the complex won't racemicize. (ligand rearragement so that polarised light would not be rotated as much as the isolated species.) It wasn't fun. All because I was slightly ahead of everybody else. I don't do it on purpose, I don't think, it is just that I don't like hanging around.

Oh on that matter of lab mishaps I used a 5 inch pipette to draw out liquid of 3 inch depth in a 15 inch height container. If that made sense you would have realised the impossibility of the action. Then there was vacuum dessication of one of my products though only 0.15g was actually needed to go in there. There was also the lack of functioning polarimeters available. The one that I knew how to operate had the sample container missing. Then the ones that did have it don't actually work. I think it was just that our lab teacher don't actually know how to operate it or was it just that I didn't want to use it?? Anyway I had a teasing from my ex-lab partner for the first two mishaps. He seems to be always around to witness it. I hope it is not the other way round though. Well now that I got used to their presence I can actually communicate with them and occassionally joke about but mine are usually unnatural. Well it took my two best friends a whole year to get closer and a further 3 or 4 years to finally understand each other I guess that's just life.

I have a small crush on my ex-lab partner as you may already noticed. Well thinking about my ex-lab partner who is very different to all my previous male encounters certainly put me off thinking about my one sided love for another guy of 3 years. I know I am just a classmate to him but it helps to deter me from thinking about the pain I had. I will pull out eventually but I guess pulling out of the feeling for my ex-lab partner is easier than that other guy so I just let that come and hopefully not show it too much.