My thesis advisor from my undergrad years just emailed to say that she's putting together something that involves the stuff I did for my senior thesis and she had a bunch of questions for what I tried and didn't try and since she's at home she thought that it'd better to email me rather than to check the records I left for her.
Dear all: this is from my work based on organism from another kingdom, involving the arginine - glutamine - glutamate pathway (huh, spell check will recognize glutamate but not glutamine -- why is that?) from three years ago. And I left 95% of my notes with her. Asking me to recite the passages from Hamlet that I remembered back in high school would've been easier. Asking me to diagram out the glycolysis cycle would've been easier. (They are one dimensional information, two at the most, but with your own data it's not just what and when, it's what and when and where and how and why down to the accuracy of less than 5% chance of mistake or else the final conclusion you draw will be wrong and this is why I chose to leave 95% of the notes instead of the usual 50-70%.)
O the frustration. I could weep.
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