Park City ACS Meeting

On Father's Day 2008 My friends Crystal, Katie Co, and I drove out to our very first ACS ( American Chemical Society) meeting that was being held in Park City this year. The past few months had been very stressful for me in my preparation for it as I have been pulling long hours in the lab to try to get results for this particular conference because I had to present a poster there. Well...we never really got the final product and my reaction process kept changing and changed at least three times two weeks before this conference. However, Dr. Ham decided we had enough information still to go on and so I wrote a poster. My group slaughtered me a few times with questions I had no answers to in order to prepare me for my presentation- which by the way- no one even asked any of the presented questions- so I was embarrassed and stressed out over nothing- well not really nothing- but people asked more about my synthesis than anything else which is what I am comfortable with. Well anywho- so Sunday we drove up to Park City and stayed in the Marriott- Crystal and Katie presented that night. I presented the next day from 9 am to 12 pm- the presentation was a lot of fun and I received 2 job interview offers. The rest of the day were seminars and then a banquet. Tuesday I went to seminars all day and another banquet, and I got a lot of free stuff. Wednesday, was more seminars and then I headed home. I had a great time there, but my poor husband was so lonely he couldn't sleep. I had no problems sleeping- Marriott has really nice beds. While I was there I had few firsts- running on a treadmill for 9 miles and discovering a gray hair ( I was not very happy about this- I turn 24 tomorrow!) After I got home on Wednesday I had to hurry up and clean the house as my mom was coming with a friend to stay Thursday through Sunday. My mom came- she spoiled me and we had a blast. I love my mom. This month continues to be crazy for me though- I have my birthday tomorrow so in order to not feel guilty about celebrating I am coming into work at 430am and leaving after group meeting around 230pm. Then this upcoming weekend is a huge family reunion for Andy's mom's ancestors which starts Friday night. So I will continue to busy. Also this past Sunday I gave my first lesson in Relief Society- I was so scared- and I keep thinking of things I could have done better- but hopefully the next one will be much improved. Well I am going to post some pics now of the conference- Have a happy June!
Me and our post doc with the poster I made.


Me, Crystal and Katie at our first banquet.


We traversed into Park City Tuesday night and got pedicures.