<div>June 9th </div>
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<div>Today is a Monday, and Monday's are hard. My daughter was up sick last night and I am tired today. In the lab we have tried some new samples and new conditions on the HPLC and we have high hopes for them for tomorrow. I have been enjoying riding my bike around campus with my daughter. The kitchen staff in the cafeteria gave us some old bread and we fed the ducks, it was alot of fun. I am looking forward to our field trip this week, I don't know where we are going, but I think it will be fun.</div>
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<div>June 10th</div>
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<div>We made some progress today! We reproduced some good data on the HPLC, yeah! It was very exciting. We have worked so hard to identify the problem we were having and to figure out a solution. I am really enjoying this research. It is like working on a puzzle. I really like the group I am in too. We get along very well together. After work this evening we went to the rec center and did rock climbing. It was really cool. I am going to try to go again on my lunch break tomorrow. This program really seems like a job to me, I am in the lab from 8am to 5pm, every day with an hour for lunch. I am glad that I enjoy it. If not, it would be a long summer. The campus is great for my daughter too, we play on the playground by family housing every evening. We are planning to go see a planetarium show this Friday. The Children's Learning Center on campus is great too.</div>
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<div>June 11th</div>
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<div>Today was a good day overall. We were able to reproduce data on the HPLC four times. Unfortunately when we tried to collect the fractions corresponding to the peaks that we were interested in, it was unsuccessful. I am interested to see how we will try to fix the problem tomorrow. We saw two presentations today. My group and Dr. Kostic's group gave presentations on their respective reasearch projects. I was very impressed by both presentations, they were easy to understand and informative. I think Brandon, from our group, portrayed our work very well.</div>
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<div>June 12th</div>
<div>So far so good. I went rock climbing on my lunch break today, it was a great exercise to do. I felt energized and ready to work afterwards, instead of feeling full and sluggish. We ran several cleaning runs and test runs of the HPLC today, to try to fix our issues. Our results were unconclusive so far. Maybe tomorrow will look up, regarding research.</div>
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<div>June 13th</div>
<div>Today was no fun at all. We went on a field trip to Alcon Pharmeceuticals in Fort Worth. I had a bad medical episode and had to be taken to the clinic on site. I missed the whole field trip. I also have to miss half a day of work next week to have medical tests done. </div>