The advisor has claimed the first authorship of this paper I had written for another journal. I'm all left as the second author. Well, he put some nice new ideas into it, but still, life is just so unfair sometimes. Anyway, from the look of things, it seems that the manuscript will be published soon.

I'm just hoping one of these days, when the PECVD is ressurected and the TA job is finally finished, I will beat him as the first author of lots of other papers.

I just couldn't wait to be finished with this seemingly endless journey.