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[moonwise]

Instead of doing something productive this evening, I think I'll re-do the rollover lesson from GoLive, and possibly the CSS lesson.

Signs you've been inhaling too much solvent: I had to do a very simple reaction to make the bromohydrin of an olefin. On working the reaction up, I found I had no product. This wasn't terribly surprising in retrospect because the starting material was still sitting in its vial on my bench.

Tomorrow will be dinner with an old friend who might be able to help me get my resume looked at by J&J. It would be too cool to work with him again; we were trouble when we were here at P'ton together and we can be trouble again. However, it might be a problem because we'd never get any work done.

Said friend reminded me of one of my favorite things ever said about me; we were in class once and the prof pointed to a molecule on the board and said that it was cantharidin. He then asked if any of us knew what cantharidin was, and I said immediately that it was Spanish fly. Prof looked at me in astonishment and said, "How do you KNOW all this shit?" (direct quote)

I think I like being a person who knows a lot of weird factoids about nothing important. Something to talk about at parties, I suppose.

Comments

J&J you say?

[chemchick80.livejournal.com]

Funny you should mention them, because I work for them.

Which site does your friend work at? If it's the Raritan one, I most likely will know who they are. Wow this world is freakin' small.

Go Chemists (or biologists)! Raaaa!

Re: J&J you say?

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Really! You guys hiring? ^_^

My friend works at the PRI in Bridgewater. I'm reluctant to hand out his name in public, but his initials are JW.

Go Chemists indeed! ;)

Re: J&J you say?

[chemchick80.livejournal.com]

There are no positions open on my team as of yet. But I think that JnJ is still hiring. So it would definitely be worth your while to hand your resume off to someone who works here.

As for your friend....if he works on the antimicrobial team and likes to play poker, then I know who he is.

Hee hee.

[pipeandslippers.livejournal.com]

> This wasn't terribly surprising in retrospect because the starting material was still sitting in its vial on my bench.

Hmmn. Perhaps this isn't the kind of mistake you tell everyone in your lab about.

But at least you know why the reaction didn't go.

Go Chemists, go chemists! W'hoo!

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

>Signs you've been inhaling too much solvent

:D Agh ! Go easy on the solvent there, you hear ? ;)

[kwyjibotica.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I just had a campus interview with J&J a couple of weeks ago. If I'm remembering correctly, they said that there were about 10 med-chem Ph.D. openings between the La Jolla and Jersey sites this year. Of course, I'm making an assumption here, but a quick glance at some of your entries makes me think I'm talking to a fellow organic chemist. :)

And if you're wondering just who the hell I am, you can blame ssilverfish for pointing me this way.....