Random Ramblings

* Who the hell weedwacks at 8am on a Sunday, shouldn't you be at church so I can sleep!

* My throat is still scratchy, but it hasn't gotten worse so I'm betting on allergies over strept again.

* Grad Advisor (GA) wrote back to say they're going out of town so I sent my paper to my undergrad mentor (UM) to read in the mean time. I'm annoyed about this but really don't have a right to be. I'll get good feedback from UM and then hopefully GA can make minimal changes and we'll get this paper submitted.

* It's beautiful out today, I'd like to get some exercise but the scratchy throat may pose a problem.

I'm a rockstar

Well, as close to one as I'll ever get.

Yesterday I sent Post doc ms 1 to mentor, today I sent Diss ms 1 to my graduate advisor, I have been a writing rock star. And I'm looking forward to starting to look over the reviews for rejected ms so I can get to work on revising that for a new journal.

On a not so happy note, my throat is scratchy and I'm scared. I had strept throat a couple of months ago for the first time since I was like 13. It was horrible and I'm scared it's back. It could just be allergies and probably is, let's hope the allergy meds I took kick it in the butt.

And my ear is still ringing a bit but it's much better than this AM so hopefully it will be gone by tomorrow.

Ouch...

Yesterday was a great day at work. I got my paper to the point that I felt comfortable turning it over to my mentor (fingers crossed that she likes it!). I also did a bunch of data organizing on the project that will become post-doc paper #2, which I know will make my mentor very happy.

Then last night I went out with a couple of girlfriends to a bar to listen to an 80's cover band. It was really fun! But I am so paying for it today, I woke up with a terrible cramp in my right calf about 4am and now I can barely walk. My right ear is still ringing from the noise of the band (I tried to stay away from the speakers but it was really loud there!) and I am exhausted from not getting home until after 2am and waking up around 9am. I think today is going to be a low key day.

writing, writing, writing

I find writing incredibly hard. In the end my writing is quite good but I have never had a good role model for writing, my grad school advisor finds writing really hard as well so that wasn't helpful.

My advisor also never works on more than one paper at a time so it sucked to be their grad student when they were co-authoring papers with other students.

I'm getting better. When I put my mind to it, I can get into a groove and really make progress. Today I spent over two hours working on the paper with my mentor. I think I might actually be able to turn it over to her after a few hours more tomorrow. I hope she's happy with it (actually, I'm hoping she's more than happy with it!), but I'll settle for feeling as though I did enough to help her move it forward.

Wish me luck.

Oh, and I applied for another job today.

And I received a letter from the last TT job I was waiting to hear from. They canceled their search for this year but they're hoping to get the funding for next year so they said they'd keep my materials and I just have to let them know if I want them reactivated. All in all, I was just really impressed they contacted me.

I love sleep

I've known this for a long time, but woke up at 3am this morning and was so delighted that I could still sleep for hours that it hit me again just how much I love to sleep! I don't ever really sleep in, but just knowing I can makes me happy. Of course it is allergy season and my allergies just make me want to sleep all the time so that could be influencing my thrilled about sleeping feelings.

Ok, I really need to get some work done today. I want to turn this paper over to my mentor on Friday and I've done nothing with it this week.

Must get back to work... I know, I'll work for a bit and then go to Starbucks for a coffee break that should motivate me.

Procrastination...

Over the last two days I have gotten nothing done at the office. I'm too busy thinking and planning my vacation. Everything is booked now hotel, flights and rental car, guess I have to get back to work tomorrow.

Sh... don't tell anyone but I have a tooth ache, and a terrible fear of he dentist. I have a feeling I'm not going to be able to ignore this for much longer.

My fear is quite rational though, I had a REALLY horrible experience at the dentist as a pre-teen and I have been petrified ever since. I chocked on a piece of tooth when it broke and the dentist was screaming at me for being upset about that. Nice huh? So I'm always afraid that I'm going to choke and picture that jackass screaming at me whenever I go.

Going to miss my RAs.

Today was our end of the year lab party so it was a long day of work followed by trekking out to my mentor's apartment for the party. It was a nice get together, we gave out funny lab member awards which I think went over well.

My mentor told me today that all of my RAs wrote about how much they adore me in their final papers. Apparently I have them convinced that they completely designed the current study we're piloting! :) I really do value their feedback and hard work so I guess that comes through in my interactions with them.

So now we have a little down time before our internship program starts and so I'm planning a long weekend away with my sisters. Just a girls weekend of laying by the pool, drinking fancy alcohol drinks and getting massages and pedicures. I can't wait!!