The LAST experiment (I hope)!

For the past year I have been working on my toxin degradation experiment. Over the summer there was a point when my adviser was decided that enough data had been collected to write up the paper. About 2 weeks later he changed his mind. I tried a couple of other experiments that he suggested but for a variety or reasons (mostly a lack of the needed equipment) they did not work. By that point the summer was over and it was time to head back to Norman. Because I need some of the machinery that is only available at the Biological Station, I could not continue trying any other experiments...until now. A new filtering system was ordered and I am set to head to the station after class on Tuesday and stay until Sunday. I feel an extreme amount of stress given that this may be a one shot try at finalizing the past year's worth of work. I feel like I have done some really grest work in the past experiments, but everytime something goes wong that is what is emphasized and all of my triumphs are forgotten. For that reason I tend to get extremely uptight and flustered when things start to falter and I definetly shed my fair share of tears over the summer. They were tears of frustration, but they would not fall if I did not care so much about my experiment. These things seem to take on a life of their own, or maybe they just take over your life. Either way, I am in a one hundred percent positive frame of mind at this point and am hoping to make it through this with a final set of data to make this paper a go. Updates will of course follow later this week!