ok. first the library news.

the kids had all of last week off so we did something fun every afternoon. the highlights were tuesday's chemistry, thursday's blink (an awesome card game) tournament, and friday's pillow making and decorating. special thanks to mike for the chemistry and to grandma for donating the fabric that we used to make the pillows. the kids had a great time with it.

fun as it was, i'm glad the week is over and i can take the weekend off. usually the kids come in to the library around 2:30 and stay for the rest of the afternoon. when they have the day off from school, they are there as soon as the library opens and it doesn't stop till we close. that's a lot of hours to have kids pulling at my clothes and calling my name.

now the chemistry news (just a warning: this is semi-big news)

it has been almost 8 months without any really big changes in our life (before that: getting married, my masters, mike's decision to stay for his phd, will we move to new york? then moving to new york, getting a new job...) (we figured out last night that i've had to start and quit at least 5 jobs in the past year) and i knew it was too good to last. just a day or so ago, some papers came out with the definitive structure of his molecule. the bad news being that the definitive structure is not what mike thought it was.

so... he thought he was building an apartment building and it's really an office building. which is sort of ok, and he's not going to lose too much work. BUT there are other groups trying to make this same molecule and who weren't managing because what they were getting was supposedly wrong but because of the new structure it turns out they were right. SO. someone else might make it first and might make it better. which means that mike might just stop making this molecule and start making something else. after 3 years of work, that's pretty big news (especially because with only a little over a year left, it would be very difficult to get a paper written on his new project. and papers breed jobs).

he's talking to dave today to figure out the next steps. we'll see what happens.