I seemed to have hit a peak for insanity this month.
Have to go into lab again today. Ivy's vaguely glitchy. Had to choose new paper for presentation and so will be spending this weekend, most likely, working on that presentation. Got assigned to present at the local neurodevelopment meeting in March so as soon as the paper thing is done I expect I shall have to prepare for that. (Why can't the PI wait one more quarter? Then I can just use the committee meeting as the practice run for the general presentation.) I'm still not sure how this happened, but it looks like I got volunteered both recruitment weekends for a poster presentation. Still not sure if I have to host someone yet, but the first weekend is next weekend and so hopefully someone will mail me at some point to let me know.
Darn it, and it's almost tax-time again. I'm funded by two different sources, one of them doesn't show up on the W-2 and so there's more arithmetic for me.
Lab mate got a manuscript accepted yesterday. PI got the lab chocolate, cake, and a bottle of champagne (carried in an ice bucket -- sorry, no photos). Afterwards we all signed the bottle in gold paint-pen, because that's how the lab tradition goes, it seems (the person who published get a signed bottle to keep). Of all the random lab traditions around, I think this one is sweet. In more sense than one.
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