167 likes, 5 comments - life_and_sunshine on March 7, 2026: "It’s been a week guys… like omg… it feels like 6 years ago that I had my last vacation, not last week 😳 The number of experiments that have needed to get done have been insaaaaaane 🫣 and if anyone has any experience with ICP-MS you’ll understand my struggle 😂 ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ The urge to run away was so real we just decided to go for it 😂 We drove an hour into nature (as far as that’s possible in the Netherlands 🇳🇱) got ourselves situated in a tiny house 🏠 and went walking and cycling 🚴🏼‍♀️ in the nature parks that are around this area 😊 ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ Top all of that off with a fire place, wooly blanket, and a book 📚 and you have my ideal way to relax ☺️ Just needed some complete and total dissociation from life, and I was only back at work for one week 🤣 but it’s fine! I don’t have to think about my experiments until Monday 😉 ☀️ ☀️ ☀️ #phd #science #scientist #gradschool #dissociation".