It has been a busy couple of weeks.

SMASH 2012 (http://www.smashnmr.org/) was great.  Good to see old friends and make new ones.  Providence was a delight and the talks were smashing (pun intended).  Some highlights include an fascinating comparison of sigma calculation methods to assess diastereomers by Michael Lodewyk, absolute configuration by chiroptics and RDC by Griesinger and FHU qNMR (fuck you, NMR!) by Jonas Buser.  I also enjoyed the entire JBCA sesssion.  I learned more useful things in Chuck Ross's 1 & 1/2 hour "Teaching Mass Spectrometry to NMR Spectroscopists" tutorial than an entire semester course. 

When I returned it was my turn to give a talk at our "What's Hot" symposium.  So overall it was a hot week.

I also returned to find my Haskris peeing pink fluid all over the floor due to a cracked fitting.  That was messy to fix and clean up.
 
Finally, many congratulations to SCC assistant director and KU NMR lab customer extraordinaire Dr. Jennifer Golden for her NCI grant. 

http://www.news.ku.edu/2012/september/18/golden.shtml