The devil is in the details

Update

This has been the longest week ever, and it's only Wednesday morning. I stayed up all night Sunday night to finish writing the progress report (it didn't turn out well, but it did exist, so that was good.) and to finish putting together the Powerpoint presentation. I gave the talk in lab meeting on Monday morning as a practice for tomorrow. I was pretty much hammered with questions, which I certainly did not enjoy with the lack of sleep. It was not a good feeling at all-I did get a lot of suggestions, but I didn't entirely appreciate having all of the holes in my project pointed out just a few days before I have to present again, when I certainly don't have enough time to fix them. Ever since then, I've been running around the lab like crazy trying to deal with my experiments and fix the presentation. I'm meeting with the boss in a few minutes to go over it again and I am planning on spending the rest of the day on the computer working on it. I'm annoyed that I don't have as many changes made as I'd like (as in, some of the changes the boss wanted are not yet done) but I absolutely had to do laundry and run a couple errands last night so that I didn't end up in front of my committee in sweatpants with unwashed hair.

My post-meeting plans include heavy drinking Thursday night (yay $2 drafts and test tube shots), lab on Friday (it is one of my closest lab peep's last day, or else I would take it off), and then drinking/Harry Potter/catching up on sleep this weekend. I am very much looking forward to all of it. As far as emails (and comments here, which I count in that category since they go to my email box)-you will all get replies on Friday, when I am here in the lab chilling. I should get the template changes done then too. (What, you thought I was going to come into the lab and actually do real work on Friday? Ha.)

The unintended side benefit to a couple months of constant travel followed by constant work, leading me to being at the end of my rope with stress and busy-ness? I'm wearing my skinny jeans today. :)

posted by Immunegirl @ 8:29 AM