Chemistry Can Be Funny

I was looking through some old lab notebooks from college, and I was noticing that I logged my experiments with...flair. I thought it would be amusing to share with you some of the gems I wrote in there! Keep in mind that this is exactly like I wrote it originally in the lab books...smiley faces, exclamation points, and all.

• My percent yield is going to be dismal. A few crystals are forming, but for the most part it isn't working out so well. Nothing came out when I hirsched it! :( Starting over...
• The reaction mixture is a nice color this time.
• I removed the aqueous layer. For some reason this layer was on the bottom...weird.
• I keep washing and washing and washing with methylene chloride...
• I have product! Plenty of product!
• I know my product was pretty darn pure because my melting point was great!
• It looked white. Really white.
• Meso-stilbene dibromide! :)
• Lo and behold, it decomposed!
• It looked pure. No weird colors, etc. The end!
• 0.023 g product. DISMAL.
• (A messed up reaction mechanism) This is what I get for writing in pen...The REAL one: (the right reaction mechanism) I win!
• My alternate procedure yielded brown junk. I suspect failure...
• I made diphenylacetylene! Here's how I know:...It tastes like diphenylacetylene (just kidding!)
• I could have recrystallized it, but I am lazy.

I'll post more later!