LOL at DJWickid. I know. All you can do now is admire them and think what you may have done 10 years ago!

30s are NOT great. 30s are tough. Everything that once was pert, now sags. Everything that once was blonde, now has a tinge of grey. If you get checked out by a young guy, you start to do the maths and realise you could be his mother. You drop something in the supermarket and a 5 year old says "you dropped this, old lady"...and you want to cry. 30s are NOT great.

I can go one better...I am still writing, still have dumploads to write, have not been paid a penny since Christmas, and I started May 2002! Does that make you feel better?

Deep breaths, cc, calming down. No more NMR talk from now on, cc can't cope with it...I just have to say you are a brave person undertaking a PhD involving NMR, every time I hear someone mention it, I try to concentrate to learn something, but my eyes glaze over and I start to think about what I am going to cook for dinner instead.

Yes, cc, I think it is the protein expression/purification/concentration for NMR that is the hard part and that the ad is referring to.
But, thank you, H, for your helpful and succinct method for NMR sample preparation...very useful if I get the job.

Oooh, cc, would that be NMR as in nuclear magnetic resonance? Because I just saw a job advertised that sounded great but applicant had to have experience in NMR sample prep...and I don't

It is dark, cold and rainy actually.

You do your marine biology data analysis in Cambridge, while I pick up my boar from work.

Oh, would someone feed that man some meat so he will give up on the BBQ front.

You should be...although not about the inner leg thing. So, what kind of day is it in Cambridge today?

Don't be self-critical, coastman, that joke you made earlier about marine biologists not being shallow made me laugh out loud.

I think you sound sweet.

Telling the truth, coastman never admitted to the 79kg part, so he can be whatever size jojo wants him to be.

You don't have to get snippy about it, H and DanB.

jojo, I think we have found a man for you...and he is 182cm tall and weighs 79kg...he wants to buy you fudge in Cambridge. What girl wouldn't want that?

Yes, TAKEN. And, many miles away with great big oceans in between.

Sorry H, Piglet is already has a boar...and a piglet!

Anyway, I think coastman still holds a candle for jojo.