Well, I turned in another version of my qualifying paper tonight. Every single day this week, I really thought I would get it done. I mean, it was already done, how long could it take to make some revisions, right? Wrong. Decidedly wrong. It could take 7 days straight of working on it 4-7 hours a day, in fact, if you were wondering. Including 8-12 and 2-7 today! But: it is mostly done. Unless I totally messed up the statistics (which is by no means impossible), it might - might - get approved in its current version. And that would be great, because then I can stop rewriting this paper at least for a few months, and come back to it this fall sometime with fresh eyes and new data and no looming due date. Oh how nice that would be.
Now I just have to prepare a short presentation for my meeting about our Paris project at Stanford in the morning (and I get to catch the train at 7:27!), but I think I'll have plenty of time to throw it together on the train(s). And then I have to get my annotated bibliography ready for my meeting with the chair of my exam committee on Tuesday (lord help me with that... the bibliography, not the meeting, the meeting will be fine), and then I have a week to prepare for my qualifying exam, which will be on Tuesday the 17th. And then (then!) I get to throw together my poster for the conference I'm going to in Seattle, because it has to go to the printer on the 18th. (Oops.) And then I have 4 days to get my Paris experiment ready before I leave for Seattle, then 5 days in Seattle (which I'm really looking forward to, especially once my poster is sent to the printer!). Then 4 more days at home getting stuff ready for Paris, I guess, including a second poster which will have to go to the printer while I'm actually in Seattle, come to think of it (oops). And then, before I know it - Paris!
Lovely, lovely Paris. I'm so excited, but there's so much stuff to get done between now and then. I decided I'm not even going to try to work on my conference presentation until I'm actually in Paris, because I'll have 14 days while I'm in Europe to work on it, and I think that should be plenty. It would be nice if I could collect some more data on my kiddies before I leave, but I'm not gonna hold my breath on that. Because that would have to be sometime this week (when I should be studying) or sometime at the end of next week, when I might be scrambling to get my Paris stuff ready to go. We shall see.
Shoot, it's 11:00? Where does the time go? At least I got to play some frisbee tonight! It's so great that it stays light so late now - we played frisbee from 7:00 to almost 9:00 tonight, so that was an excellent break. I am so glad this frisbee thing has been working out. I look forward to it every week, and I'm going to miss it this summer!
Oh well, time for bed. G'night.
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