Long day's journey into night

That feeling when you have spent too many hours in a day, too many days in a week, and too many weeks in a month working on that assay to get those results that will get you all you wanted... and the data comes out looking, not bad, not even "the opposite of what you wanted" but, baffeling and very odd.

That feeling... when all you thought was that it would make sense... that the day was "just another day in the life"... and then you have no answers. And you know that tomorrow you will embark yet again on the "trying to make sense of the data" - at least explain what went wrong; what happened; WHY does it look like that....

And you can get just a tiny smidge of tired...

That feeling though, after leaving the lab and the analyzing, when you open a door and realise that there is a lovely smell of homemade cooking, sounds of humming and happy times, maybe a bubble bath and warm and fuzzy slippers..... yes, that feeling can really make a tiresome Thursday turn into "tomorrow will be a new day with happy possibilities of making it all work".

Sometimes it's just those happy times!