Today is my last day before our upcoming experiments at the Advanced Photon Source. We're again running at a BESSRC beamline, however this time it is 12-BM. I don't think it will make too much difference in our work. Most of the software and hardware is similar to where we've worked before. I think I'm more or less ready, but have not heard from the other post-docs since shifting over to nights.

I'm continuing to work on a manuscript for our gold surface experiments. My advisor has the manuscript during the day and I work on it at night. This will be my first paper with Hoydoo You and it's been a little different from my graduate school publications. Not to say better or worse, just different. Part of it of course is working with different people and having a different advisor (I still call Hoydoo an advisor or mentor and not boss). And certainly part of it is writing about new work that is quite separate from my graduate school experience. But I think part of it is also my own voice maturing a bit more(at least I hope so).