In addition to everyones thoughts on being clean and safety, I'm hoping your not gonna be setting up a clan lab in your living room or kitchen. I suggest purchasing a respirator similar to this NIOSH approved one below, they are a cheap price to pay if your health is important to you.
search your local hardware store at the paint section or use the internet. On a sidenote, wearing this mask for long periods of time will gather alot of moisture inside the mask, you can put a folded paper towel inside of it to absorb this.
Keep in mind these things work so well you may forget the fumes of solvents you're dealing with are probably reaking the whole area where your workspace is located, I2 fumes will also irritate your eyes, some form of properly venting the fumes away from joe citizen's house should be taken under consideration, mother nature can do this for you if the conditions are right.
You should also pay attention to when your going to start refluxing and roughly what time of day it's going to be completed, and estimate how long it's going to take you to complete all the procedures depending on which scale your on and I'm guessing swim is performing everything by himself, you also don't want mr or ms.x stumble onto swim out of coincidence to see swim obviously affiliated with some type of chemistry manufacturing activity.
Be sober and only listen to music at a normal volume ONLY if it's completely safe, you don't want to underestimate being completely safe because when music is playing you can't hear the small noises like footsteps if the music was off.
Other notes:
Store glassware and any precursors/solvents/acids/bases strategically, practice assembling your lab quickly, and disassembling, clean the glassware(take your time) and store everything you don't need after the main procedures have been completed (so you only have a evap dish and some dried solvents to rextallize with and anything else you need in your workspace.)
take your time and do everything efficient. You can test the washed, finished raw product after no evidence of lab activity is in your workspace this means fumes also. (rextallizing properly is definitely worth the wait.) and don't be bummed if your first rxn was a failure, learn by practice.
A note about being sober: what if you got busted and your sitting behind bars thinking what you could have done to prevent this from happening. Sure it sounds fun to get twacked out and manufacture what your on, but my opinion being sober makes you think and
hear clearly, you can complete everything from start to finish without bugging out or fucking up a simple procedure.
hope this helps, good luck.
NOTE: I belive there is also a couple of good threads about lab ethics on TFSE.
EDIT: I forgot to add you should have a new fire extinguisher next to you when the
DAY comes, water doesn't do to well with NP fires.