Life is suddenly a whole lot busier.
I knew, intellectually, how much time is between Thanksgiving and Christmas. What I hadn't quite factored was the fact that, despite of the three weeks period, I technically only have two days each week to do everything that I need to get done. Starting the comp bio portion of my project meant that most of my incubation time during lab is spent collecting sequences for analysis on my computer. I tried to do some work on the bus, but at 7am in the morning and at night I'm simply too tired to bother, preferring instead to stare out the bus window blankly and enjoy my hour of zen.
Which means I have this weekend and next weekend to get every thing done, since Lucy and I are leaving on the 19th. Lab event next weekend means I'll have to throw away one day. Which means I have a grand total of three days to get my cards addressed and sent out (19th the latest for mailing but I need to get the cards written before then), Christmas shopping & wrapping done (or at least 80% finished), and finish both my quarterly lab report and prepare a lab presentation. Mostly the hour I have at the end of the day this week will be spend, I think, digging through my clothing as SD finally decided that it was winter after all and dropped its temperature. It is now very cold out by the bus stop at night. Why do I not have a geeky hoodie?
So cheers. The Thanksgiving post (or the third of it I'd managed to write while I was at the airport) is on Ivy. I am on Daemon. The DEPC I requested finally came in today and its container bore an uncanny resemblance to cough syrup bottles but, still more unfortunately, to Pepto Bismo.
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