Nora's coming

Awesome news, Nora passed all her exams and also received a letter from Auckland Uni that she's been excepted. So everything worked out great. She is coming on tuesday next week at 5 in the morning. I'll certainly pick her up from the airport. I'm really excited, 3 months are such a long time and I really can't stand being without her anymore. I'll take the rest of the week of and we will do some things. Can't wait! Work at the lab is doing good as well now that I have figured out the reason why my results weren't reproducible I managed to limit the influence of the laser. It seems that waiting for about 5min usually makes the laser settle into approximatly the same state, so I only have to wait after changing the wavelength or the output power. Because I have to take measurements at a lot of different powers and wavelengths, I automated the whole process, so I only have to turn on the laser in the morning and start the measurement, and then I can go do some other things. So at the moment I'm trying to catch up with my reading, as I ususally have the tendency to slack off when I'm doing experiments. I also have to start on building a literature database, which allows me to quickly search my papers and create bibtex files easily. At the moment I'm looking at using pybliographer which seems to fulfill my needs. I'll keep you updated how I like it.