Last Day of Term

Today I had a meeting with my supervisor. I classed it as quite successful as I was able to clarify my thoughts better and we kind of homed in on a research topic so that was good. But he gave me another massive wad of papers to read..........

Our weekly lab meeting (my first one) was given by an Iranian visiting Professor in our department. He talked about Azo dye degradation using aerobic and anaerobic sludge material (don't yawn!) Not directly related to my project but interesting none-the-less. In a nutshell he was discussing different biological approaches on how to tackle getting rid of dyes from effluents produced by the textile industry. He talked about degradation of reactive dye colours (his specific example being reactive black 5) and production of methane (a green house gas) amongst other things. By the way for those not in the chemistry know-how, Azo dyes are classified by the Azo bond which is basically a nitrogen-nitrogen triple bond. You can read more about it if you really want to :o)

Officially its the last day of term (yay). Ok so now you're confused, she starts term two weeks go and its holiday time already?! Well not to confuse you I started late due to work commitments but PhD's don't necessarily follow the formal term timetable.

Anyway back to helping my parents pack