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June 20. Celine returned from her vacation.  Made things worse
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and gave me extreme irritation by taking part of George when I complained of his tinkering with my motor car. I feel. much wrought up. and am much tired and disgusted with everything.  I do not know where to turn first to take care of all my accumulating work and then I am bothered with all these other irritating details around the house. and ever increasing expenses.  If it were not that it would upset matters too much and practically stop my work at the most critical time. I would close up the house and go and live quietly far away
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by myself to get some rest in entirely different surroundings where every nook and corner does not remind me at every minute of some work which has to be attended to or some matter which has been neglected. - I feel like bursting.  
Need a change and cannot take it.
Went to office met Hasslacher, discussed new change in [[red underline]] De Muth [[/red underline]] contract. - I doubt anyhow whether [[red underline]] De Muth [[/red underline]] will sign it since we have discovered that new treatment although it showing discoloration does not prevent it.
Then (meeting at McKenna's new laboratory) of Officers committee of Institute Chemical Engineers. Then hurried to Chemists Club where I met [[red underline]] Loeb. [[/red underline]] explained him [[red underline]] Stern- [[/red underline]]
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