Watching paint dry

A common technique used in my lab....and by just about everyone else in an organic chemistry lab (sophomore undergraduates included)...is "elevated temperature, reduced atmosphere rotary evaporation." Nobody calls it that. It's just "rotovap." Much easier to say and since all models work under the heat and vacuum mode to distill off solvents those are really just assumed.
Basically, "rotovaping" or removing sovents by rotary evaporation is a fancy way of watching paint dry- literally if you happen to be in the paint business. Once a solution is put on the rotovap (the term is both a noun and a verb for those that are paying attention to my grammar) then it's a matter of having a dry sample afterwards. Naturally, this leads to a bit of down time. So I decided to take a picture to show off the pretty colors that can be chemistry. Enjoy!