I'm Cursed!

So today was horrible! I woke up this morning at 6:00am to find that the wireless network I was using had disappeared! Boooooooooooooo Then I get to work and tell Mark that I need to set up a DSL line, and he said it wasn’t worth it for only 3 months. It seems that in Germany, everyone and everything runs in slow motion. It would apparently take 1 month to set up the connection, and then another month to cancel it, so I would only have it for 1 month! Plus, it’s insanely expensive. About 30€ for the DSL and 15€ for the phone (which you have to set up for the DSL) which come to about 60$CAN or so I think which I can’t afford. So there goes that idea, and I am now without internet! I am however getting a phone and possibly dial up, so we’ll see how that goes.
Things aren’t going too well at work either. Well, it’s not so much that they aren’t going well, but more like I’ve seemed to have brought my curse with me! Most of you know that I am somewhat cursed when it comes to anything electronic. Well, it seems to have followed me to Europe! I broke the HPCL this morning! More like it broke as I was standing in front of it! And of course this is the first time it has ever done anything like this! Thankfully it was fixed at lunch, so it really wasn’t so bad. But my electronic pass still doesn’t work. You use this thing not only as a time-keep for payroll, but also as a sort of depit card for the cafeteria. Mark has been buying my lunch all week! It’s suppose to work tomorrow, but they said that yesterday.
Now, if you think my day is going bad enough already, just wait, it gets better. My chemistry is also not working! I’ve been trying since Monday to do a simple methylation of a secondary amine. NOTHING WORKS! I keep getting the weirdest MSs back, and nobody in the lab can figure out what’s going on. If anyone out there has an idea I can try, please let me know! I did however solve the problem of my 30000% yield. Seems that I had some NaCl in my product, and it all went away with another extraction. Why the first one didn’t work, I have no idea. Story of my life.
On a happier note, Barbara (a girl in my lab) found me a bike! I should get it either tomorrow or next week! This comes at a great time, since I will no longer have my internet TV to keep me occupied after work. Hey, maybe I’ll even get in shape!
No big plans for this weekend. I think I’ll just hang around town and try to find things. And maybe my internet will be working again!