  Susan is leaving at the end of next week for Switzerland and we will have our final meetings this coming two days.
Damn, I have still to finish my article (I was hoping to work on it a bit more this weekend). Doesn't need mention that the Interferometer being down has reduced my chances of giving Susan any result on that side to zero. There are the stress measurements: under progress. Till now, I can apply up to 100psi (around 700kPa) and the sample continues to sleep and can't care less. Which is fine...cause it confirms our idea of fundamental behavior (Ok, I am not going to bother anyone, but writing the details of!
Enough to say that I would have preferred some trend, even though without big variations, but no variation is almost as good!). Hmmm, Susan also wants all the samples we would like her to work on ready for the meeting: packed, described and everything. Right.. I am still finishing to make the solution for making the films tomorrow, crossing my fingers to have the right orientation...
I guess I'll have to tell her that those have to wait too! Frustrating. Not Susan's fault...most probably mine, even though I believe that partially it is nobody's fault, but hey: we all need an escape goat (Susan in particular!). Ok, let's see if the lovely Dae-Yong is going to answer my email about the interferometer (I absolutely need written documentation of this last disaster!
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