PhD....??!!

It has been quite a while since i sat down to pen my thoughts....
Well ! Ever since i left for Osnabrueck(Germany) I have been on a long rollercoaster ride and i still havent seen the end, infact i dont even know when the ride would end and how it would be but i am definitely waiting for the day i would look back and say : yes! i endured it !!
Anyway, am back in Aarhus (Denmark) and my experiments are monotonous. Actually, monotonous is a fancy word for dull and boring. Yet every morning i painfully try to drag myself out of bed and come to office, work long hours, silently curse my fate for the repeatedly failed experiments and go back home dreary and drained out. During one of my cribbing sessions earlier in life, my granddad taught me a poem:

''The woods are lovely dark and deep
But I have promises to keep
And miles to go before i sleep
And miles to go before i sleep ''

One of the early poems of Robert Frost. I had written that in big bold letters on a piece of paper and hug it infront of my bed. In 2006, when i was doing my Masters struggling through Solid state theory, it actually helped and worked !! For some reason, it seemed to have lost its magical effect during my PhD.

People tell me this is what researching is all about: you just keep RE-searching. My patience is wearing out. I still have tiny bit of energy left to drag until the end and just see what it is like at the end of the tunnel. So for now, the prospect of going back home , falling asleep putting behind the experiments, pressure to make publications and all the associated tasks and dreaming of a peaceful stress free life keeps me going.....