When you just want to zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I have 4 hours of beamtime left on these experiments - looking for evidence of iron carbonate precipitation in solution. We think we have seen it, which is great, but it has come at a cost.

You see, normally when we've run these experiments in the past we've had 4 people to cover the shifts 24 hrs a day - two electrochemists and two synchrotron people. This time, we had 4 people lined up, but then when the dates were scheduled, two of them couldn't make it. So it's just been me and one other person, and because both our expertise is needed for each experiment, it means we've not been able to get much sleep over the last 2 days.

So yeah, it's been a productive trip and good preliminary work for future experiments, but very, very tiring!