Today was a good day at work, for a change. It started off in a "not so exciting" way just like any other day but now at the end of it, I can feel the elation which Archimedes experienced when he started running straight to the palace from his bath tub. What happened with me isn't exactly as good as that though. But things can always be scaled down. Well, the day started with one of my supervisors informing me that he was not at all happy with the abstract that I had prepared for participating in a conference. I have to redo that all over again. Though I hadn't spent too much sweat on preparing the first draft, I was still disappointed. I got over the disappointment of having been informed to work on the abstract all over again and started working on standardizing the setup that I have been working on for the past ten days. I have been trying different combinations and trying to fiddle around with different things but nothing seemed to work, at least till now. I really get frustrated when things don't work even when everything seems OK. But that's an integral part of my work. That's how people develop endless amounts of patience by the time they finish PhD, especially the biology variety. Coming back, today at last all the nuts, bolts and all sorts of tiny parameters seem to have fallen in place. Late in the afternoon things started looking the way they are supposed to look. At last my experimental setup is ready. Not yet. There is still some fine tuning to be done. But I am almost there. The best part was when my supervisor said " good job". When I look back at my last ten days, it was all a worthy investment for today. And for that day when I will defend my thesis.
