oh thank fuck

[jinian]

There is a reasonable hypothesis that explains our screwed-up results to date. Not sure how much of the failure to think of it sooner is due to the attitude that the grad students can/should work 16h days and how much is simply that scientists are not all as smart as PI. Will have to try harder to provide own brain power in future, though that is hard when it's all going toward actual execution steps of plan.

So maybe this horrible experience will result in actual learning the way they're supposed to! Sorry for recent brevity and irascibility, all. Please hope with me for improvement.