Surprisingly this week is approaching the Week of Insanity Around Midterms Period in terms of stress and barely controlled chaos. I am reduced to list-making to account for the eventfulness of the days so far:
1. Kitchen faucet leak: water will spray out SIDEWAYS along the spout when turned on. Discovered on Friday. Called Landlady Saturday, temporarily dealt with duct tape (still leaked, but at least no longer spraying) leading to...
2. Mystery cleaning: giving permission for repairman to enter, returning home Tuesday to find the kitchen sink mysteriously cleaned and that the sink that always clogged a little no longer clogged. The faucet was still leaking.
3. Presentation Friday morning: GROUP presentation tomorrow morning. We didn't get the material assigned to us until Monday morning. I just found out yesterday evening that at least one person in my group of three (supposed to be four, but that person never showed and no one knows who that person is) has yet to read the paper. (I'm waiting to hear back from them right now.)
4. TAing duties: Problem sets due today. To sum it up in a word: grading. (Which I do not have my pens for right now but will shortly after this hour is over.)
5. SfN flailing: abstract deadline today at 2pm. Sent final draft to PI on the 4th of May (because I knew this week may be insane and I didn't want to deal with it this week). Found out YESTERDAY at 5:30pm that he can only sponsor one person and so he has decided for me to join SfN and submit my own abstract, probably because the student membership is cheaper than the postdoc version. Joining requires sponsorship of two PIs, CV, and forms. Managed to find sponsors & get all forms together and submitted by 9pm yesterday. Submitted my own abstract by 10am today, which happens to be my TAing day (8am-12pm occupied with TAing related stuff) (yes there is no one at my office hour, which is why I have the time to do this, which I wanted to do last night but had NO TIME FOR). There was a lot of frustrated flailing involved.
6. Mice: Still. Has. Not. Been. Shipped. WTF people. Because of age constraints between cohorts if they don't get shipped within the next week I'll have to forfeit my first round of data. Considering each round takes about 6 months to generate this makes me feel a bit like crying. But at least...
7. Faucet got fixed yesterday: No leaking, no spraying, yayness.
8. Need to present poster at Genetics Retreat: Which is on my TAing day. Which requires me to set up my poster at 8:30am. Which required emailing back to explain that I am gone from 8-12 that day. (Still waiting to hear back.) Which also requires me to finish my poster in two weeks. Which involves sorting through my gigabytes of data into figures on top of dealing with the lamprey tissue samples that just arrived this Tuesday.
9: Randomly: Smog check at some point. In between all the rest of the insanity.
I think I deserve pearl tea.
1 comment:
Yes, go get yourself a pearl tea :)
If it makes you feel any better, I got my SfN membership sponsored today at around 1pm (this involved some frantic emails and phone calls). And I got the abstract in about 30 mins before the deadline. Erk erk erk. You are much more organized than I am :)
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I will see you at SfN in November!!! Conference buddies FTW!! :D
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