Carry on, gang

Today is a national holiday, which means that my class was canceled and that the labs will be locked for those without access cards. However, that does not mean that experiments have stopped or that people associated with experiments get the day off. Consequently I'm going to lab soon and there's a seminar that I'm attending at noon today but hey, free parking on campus!

...which is why I'm currently at home still. I meant to get a bit more sleep in, but when I first woke up this morning I wasn't able to pull out "Today's a Holiday" out of the foggy recesses of my mind and so automatically started blocking out my day in terms of what I must do, when. By the time I got to afternoon and class I realized that there's no class today, my memory caught up, but all gears are running already and my blood pressure is high enough (did I mention I missed the poster printing deadline by 15 minutes yesterday, partly due to an unexpectedly long lab meeting? And that today the printing services are closed?) that I ended up getting up early anyway.

The direct consequence of which is that now I have time to drink tea and... ponder about life. Or something.

(Erk erk I hope the incubation I started last night went okay and I'll have to leave the conference early Monday after all to go to lab to image something and possibly pick up my poster.)

For those of you that I'd initially contacted about FoldIt, today is three months after that round of email and the original deadline for everyone to go through the tutorials. I only know the usernames of two others and no one besides me seemed to have finished the tutorials. Given that I do (to varying degrees) know what everyone's going through right now and I am also aware (to varying degrees) that the years after this will, for most people, get even more insane, not less, I think the most reasonable thing will be to just drop this group project bit. If anyone ever finishes the tutorials within the next few years (at some point at least three months before I start writing my dissertation -- and trust me, you'll know when that time arrives because of the verbal flailing I will commit here) and still feel like giving this a shot...you all know how to reach me.

I have discovered that I definitely now own more than two gigs of music, as that my mp3 player declared itself to be full. I should probably go through and delete all the ones that it doesn't play but that requires more dedication and patience than I can spare at the moment. I have to deal with mice today. I wonder if any will try to bite me?

Off and away! (And maybe if I go to work a bit earlier than usual I can leave a bit earlier than usual? Not that it works that way, but a girl can hope.)