Done! For now...

The first 'done'. Feels great to finally be finished with benchwork. Other than a minor loose end to tie up, this is the first 'done' before reviewers of the paper or thesis requests more experiments. Of course it'll still take a while to write up said paper and thesis and defend it, it's good to hit the milestone. All planned experiments done. Couple weeks behind my original estimate and probably a bit before what my committee had thought. Now I can offically say "I'm writing".

Now, to get a job...