March 17th, 2017

I have been told by...reliable sources, that I may have come across as arrogant in my previous entry. Apologies to anyone that reads this. uI am well aware that some people think I have a stick up my arse and they are not to be blamed, in all fairness. I am proud of the work I do. And sometimes, I get too excited, perhaps, about it.

Anyway, as far as the progress on my project is concerned, I am afraid it has been rather slow. I successfully acquired the journals, and that too, without arousing any suspicion from my family, who could never think of little old me being the one to take them away. But then, I spent, or rather wasted, nearly a month trying to discover the cipher used by Griffin, only to realise he used a combination of a simple substitution cipher and a Caesar Cipher. And each page, had a different key for both ciphers.

Then I ended up spending weeks trying to decode the pages, before Samantha, my fellow scientist, collaborator, and roommate intervened, reminding me I was ignoring the work that I was being paid to do, in favour of this.

I regret to say I snapped at her for saying so. But she was right, of course. She had been incredibly patient with my secrecy regarding the journals, but I realised that it would be much better for both of us if I told her everything.

She was a bit confused and sceptical, but she has agreed to help me decipher the code.

"Why have you not simply typed it out and used a software?" she asked me, when I told her. I replied that I dare not make a virtual copy of these journals. It is not as easy to delete data as it is to simply burn the journals and my translations, should anything be discovered.

She agreed. Like me, and unlike Dr Kemp out of Wells' story, she understands the importance of keeping our work safe.

Thankfully, my translations progressed much faster with her help. We have nearly decoded the entire set of books...and what secrets we found! Griffin wrote like a madman, thought like a madman, but his ideas are pure genius! And much more practically possible than I expected. I was basing my assumptions of Griffin's theory on the book, you see. But Wells was no scientist, and neither was my great grandfather, and between them they botched up his marvelous ideas to utter ridiculousness. Cats being invisible! Ha! Griffin did a much better job than cats.

What a man! I wish I could have met him, sometimes. But I will do better than meet him. I will show the world what he did, and I will improve upon it! I won't be as foolish as he was, to make himself invisible before finding a way to reverse it! Sam has promised me her help. I will not stop till I succeed.

A/N: Chapter 2, finally! Hopefully updates will be a bit more frequent now...