So I finally know what I'm doing for my project (I hope) and I'm doing the last layer of digital analysis. Unfortunately it's going pretty slowly because it requires a lot of finicking and stepping back and thinking, "Is this right?" and sometimes doing it over. My first draft of the poster is due Monday morning...and Lipo wants to print them ON Monday so I really pretty much just have four days to get this done and done right.
I have to admit, a teeny part of me doesn't want to finish on time because Lipo will then consider me a superwoman and expect me to pull more impossibilities out of my bum in the future. Le sigh!
The good part about this is that the thinking is entirely visual so I can have the tv on to listen to. So right now I have House Hunters on, and they were just looking at a HOUSE BOAT!! It looks like so much fun, I totally want to buy one now - even though a 700 sq ft one was $369,000 - just to chill on and write on. So I have another thing to save up for. The list just keeps on getting longer...an SLR, a pair of Christian Louboutin shoes, a Fendi clutch...I should probably buy a lotto ticket or something.
Enough dilly-dallying, time to get back to work!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Plenty more action
I've spent the past few days in lab photographing my sherds through a microscope. I got 696 of the 700 shots I needed and then the computer started giving me an error message and refused to save the photos to any of the three flash drives I had or even the desktop (so I could email them to myself).
I have emailed Dr. Lipo about this (it's his microscope and his Mac so I figure he could fix it if anyone could) but he hasn't replied yet. I'm pretty annoyed because I have another fairly vital question in that email and there's absolutely nothing I can do to move forward with this project until I get that answer and that computer fixed. Time is running out so I'm pretty anxious about all this.
I was so tired I took last night off from work. I spent this morning tidying and cleaning and trying to make grocery lists and things, and I sort of started an essay but I'm not very far on it. Oh, and I have a lab due Monday. I am so freaking tired and I can't wait for summer.
I have emailed Dr. Lipo about this (it's his microscope and his Mac so I figure he could fix it if anyone could) but he hasn't replied yet. I'm pretty annoyed because I have another fairly vital question in that email and there's absolutely nothing I can do to move forward with this project until I get that answer and that computer fixed. Time is running out so I'm pretty anxious about all this.
I was so tired I took last night off from work. I spent this morning tidying and cleaning and trying to make grocery lists and things, and I sort of started an essay but I'm not very far on it. Oh, and I have a lab due Monday. I am so freaking tired and I can't wait for summer.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Here's the weight of the world on my shoulders
No wonder they're so damn sore.
Seriously, the stress is getting to me. Last night I went out on a date and had a great time, and when I got home and went to bed instead of thinking about the date, or the Rugrats episode I watched while I was getting ready for bed (I always watch cartoons when I'm locking down the apartment for the night and brushing my teeth and that sort of thing): no, I was thinking about my job and the SAAs and how stressed I was and how ridiculous this whole situation is.
I can't wait to go to South Africa. For three whole weeks I'll be relaxing, having fun with my family and my friends, seeing old places and new places and eating lots of wonderful food. And that's probably going to be the bulk of my "vacation", I'll probably be working like crazy the rest of the summer.
I worked a lot today, spent hours in lab waiting for Lipo to show and he never did. I'll just have to talk to him in class tomorrow.
Okay, I guess I should get back to work. Ugh. Maybe I'll go to bed early tonight with a book...sometimes I gotta push work back a bit and remember that if I don't take care of my mental health I'll end up in a very soft room for a very long time.
Seriously, the stress is getting to me. Last night I went out on a date and had a great time, and when I got home and went to bed instead of thinking about the date, or the Rugrats episode I watched while I was getting ready for bed (I always watch cartoons when I'm locking down the apartment for the night and brushing my teeth and that sort of thing): no, I was thinking about my job and the SAAs and how stressed I was and how ridiculous this whole situation is.
I can't wait to go to South Africa. For three whole weeks I'll be relaxing, having fun with my family and my friends, seeing old places and new places and eating lots of wonderful food. And that's probably going to be the bulk of my "vacation", I'll probably be working like crazy the rest of the summer.
I worked a lot today, spent hours in lab waiting for Lipo to show and he never did. I'll just have to talk to him in class tomorrow.
Okay, I guess I should get back to work. Ugh. Maybe I'll go to bed early tonight with a book...sometimes I gotta push work back a bit and remember that if I don't take care of my mental health I'll end up in a very soft room for a very long time.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
The quiet Friday night
This week has been so hard. I feel like I'm getting wrinkles - real ones, not the ones I already have on my forehead from scrunching up my eyes when I work at the computer for long hours.
At UF "taking initiative" and "going the extra mile" meant things like doing things before they were due, and doing a little extra research and gussying my work up so it was beautifully formatted and easy to read.
Maybe it's CSULB or maybe it's just grad school in general, but that's so not the case here. It's exhausting...and ennervating...and I start to understand the words "nervous prostration" much more clearly.
I am so, so, SO glad that Dr. Quintiliani likes my work and thinks I'm really starting to understand and "think" the way a graduate student/academic should. Dr. Rodrigue is very nice to me, but I'm not half so good at her class and it's wonderful to get real, solid praise from one of my professors.
Of course, Dr. Lipo's high expectations and his critical judgment of my work makes his praise super-awesome...it's just that I don't get a whole lot of yet it...but I will, just watch me.
Today, for instance, I just wanted to stay in bed. I felt tired, groggy, unfit, cough-y and just generally miserable and ready to spend the day imitating a bed-ridden bronchitis patient.
But I dragged myself out of bed, ate breakfast and allowed myself the luxury of going through my daily routine of comics and advice columns (don't laugh, I LOVE advice columns) before working solidly until noon when I ate lunch.
I was packing up my stuff to go to campus when I broke my glasses case (really, I expected much better quality out of Miu Miu, it is the day-house of Prada after all) and had to drop everything and rush over to CVS and get a new one (I simply can't afford new glasses just yet...so I couldn't risk breaking them) which set me back $10. But it's a nice hard case and I'm hoping it'll last a good long time.
I finally got to campus a little before one, and got started on my SAA project work - really, I was going through ImageJ (the freeware we're using to analyze the images) and trying to understand how Jimmy Daniels (the guy who did this project before me) did what he did. I was really glad when Jake got there and helped me out, although I must say with pride that I figured out FOUR THINGS ALL BY MYSELF!!! Of course, I was reading through the manual and that taught me a lot, but I still managed to figure out some stuff all on my own. I mean to read it again tomorrow because I was going to do it tonight but wrote an essay instead.
The boys left a little before 5 and I finally walked out at 5 because Dr. Lipo was still in a meeting and I was tired and annoyed. I went to the NAGPRA lab and the light-bulbs blew (of course) so I had to double-check my notes in the skeleton room which is definitely creepy with the main room darkened.
I walked home and spent the early evening cooking a nice prawn curry (I forgot how messy they get, I'm going to have to clean my stove tomorrow) and ate it with a salad that was properly accoutered with feta cheese. There's nothing like a good simple salad with feta cheese, even if I only have crumbles and not the nice flat chunks.
Then I wrote an essay while watching a PBS special on britcoms - "From Script to Screen" which was really rather touching, probably because I grew up with these shows and it reminded me of all those nights with my family and britcoms and good food. And I know you're looking disapproving about working with the tv on, but the work HAD to get done, and it's Friday night damnit, I deserve a little fun every now and again.
Once I wrote it I had a nice bowlful of ice cream while watching CSI and now I'm updating my blog with Whose Line Is It Anyway? on in the foreground.
This weekend I still have to finish some NAGPRA work, rewrite my essay (that'll happen Sunday after it's had some time to digest), reread that ImageJ manual, read my statistics book, do my taxes, rewrite some old assignments (if we turn them back in we get extra points, we can turn them in as many times as we need to get full points), and do some reading for another class. And on Sunday I'll have to go into lab to work on Lab 4 so that Tuesday will just be lab write-up because it's due Wednesday.
It's hardly a weekend, and yet, if it weren't, I'd be getting MORE work assigned to me, so I suppose it's just as well I have these days "off".
Anyway, it's midnight so I'm officially off duty. So, it's time to go work on my novel. It's not like I have any other time to write it in!
At UF "taking initiative" and "going the extra mile" meant things like doing things before they were due, and doing a little extra research and gussying my work up so it was beautifully formatted and easy to read.
Maybe it's CSULB or maybe it's just grad school in general, but that's so not the case here. It's exhausting...and ennervating...and I start to understand the words "nervous prostration" much more clearly.
I am so, so, SO glad that Dr. Quintiliani likes my work and thinks I'm really starting to understand and "think" the way a graduate student/academic should. Dr. Rodrigue is very nice to me, but I'm not half so good at her class and it's wonderful to get real, solid praise from one of my professors.
Of course, Dr. Lipo's high expectations and his critical judgment of my work makes his praise super-awesome...it's just that I don't get a whole lot of yet it...but I will, just watch me.
Today, for instance, I just wanted to stay in bed. I felt tired, groggy, unfit, cough-y and just generally miserable and ready to spend the day imitating a bed-ridden bronchitis patient.
But I dragged myself out of bed, ate breakfast and allowed myself the luxury of going through my daily routine of comics and advice columns (don't laugh, I LOVE advice columns) before working solidly until noon when I ate lunch.
I was packing up my stuff to go to campus when I broke my glasses case (really, I expected much better quality out of Miu Miu, it is the day-house of Prada after all) and had to drop everything and rush over to CVS and get a new one (I simply can't afford new glasses just yet...so I couldn't risk breaking them) which set me back $10. But it's a nice hard case and I'm hoping it'll last a good long time.
I finally got to campus a little before one, and got started on my SAA project work - really, I was going through ImageJ (the freeware we're using to analyze the images) and trying to understand how Jimmy Daniels (the guy who did this project before me) did what he did. I was really glad when Jake got there and helped me out, although I must say with pride that I figured out FOUR THINGS ALL BY MYSELF!!! Of course, I was reading through the manual and that taught me a lot, but I still managed to figure out some stuff all on my own. I mean to read it again tomorrow because I was going to do it tonight but wrote an essay instead.
The boys left a little before 5 and I finally walked out at 5 because Dr. Lipo was still in a meeting and I was tired and annoyed. I went to the NAGPRA lab and the light-bulbs blew (of course) so I had to double-check my notes in the skeleton room which is definitely creepy with the main room darkened.
I walked home and spent the early evening cooking a nice prawn curry (I forgot how messy they get, I'm going to have to clean my stove tomorrow) and ate it with a salad that was properly accoutered with feta cheese. There's nothing like a good simple salad with feta cheese, even if I only have crumbles and not the nice flat chunks.
Then I wrote an essay while watching a PBS special on britcoms - "From Script to Screen" which was really rather touching, probably because I grew up with these shows and it reminded me of all those nights with my family and britcoms and good food. And I know you're looking disapproving about working with the tv on, but the work HAD to get done, and it's Friday night damnit, I deserve a little fun every now and again.
Once I wrote it I had a nice bowlful of ice cream while watching CSI and now I'm updating my blog with Whose Line Is It Anyway? on in the foreground.
This weekend I still have to finish some NAGPRA work, rewrite my essay (that'll happen Sunday after it's had some time to digest), reread that ImageJ manual, read my statistics book, do my taxes, rewrite some old assignments (if we turn them back in we get extra points, we can turn them in as many times as we need to get full points), and do some reading for another class. And on Sunday I'll have to go into lab to work on Lab 4 so that Tuesday will just be lab write-up because it's due Wednesday.
It's hardly a weekend, and yet, if it weren't, I'd be getting MORE work assigned to me, so I suppose it's just as well I have these days "off".
Anyway, it's midnight so I'm officially off duty. So, it's time to go work on my novel. It's not like I have any other time to write it in!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Chickens roasting on an open fire
Technically, a Cornish game hen is roasting in my oven, but that just doesn't have the same ring to it.
My mandatory hw is done (I'll try to do some not-so-mandatory homework after dinner), my housework is done, and the windows are open so my apartment is airing out.
Grocery shopping today was fun, especially at Ralph's where I paid $20 and when I got my receipt it said, "Verified Savings: $16.66" - I love saving money! And really, the only thing I didn't "need" were those mandarin oranges.
Yesterday I went to IKEA again and got that comforter cover - only it was $20 instead of $15 (how annoying) and now that it's on my bed it doesn't look quite right. Of course, my down blanket is not a full comforter, maybe it'll look better when I can afford a full comforter to put in it.
I finally got around to making the Harvard beets - and they're still not quite right. I think I have to use less water. Maybe a half-teaspoon more cornstarch or doubling the beets. I have to keep experimenting, I think.
So dinner tonight is garlic roast game hen, roast potato, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and Harvard beets. This eating healthily thing is a lot of work....and so, so worth it.
On Chopped Champions right now their dessert ingredients are Crema, taco shells, bosc pears, and red curry paste.
I would blend the taco shells and use them to make corn crepes with red curried marscapone cheese and the pears with a crema-caramel sauce.
They're doing nothing like that. I'm sure I would win...lol...
I'm sure you can see that I use way too much of my spare time watching Food Network. But I love food, and that's all there is to it!
I also got some beet juice on my khaki clamdiggers which really sucks, but I'll soak the spot in cold water tonight and put some of that stain stick on it. I suppose if worst comes to worst I can throw some rhinestones on there in a little pattern. I really need to get an apron but of course the one time I WANT to find aprons at Stein Mart they don't have them. Maybe I'll have to suck it up and order one off of Amazon. They have some GORGEOUS ones on there - all cutesy and pink and frilly (why do I like them? How did that happen?!) but they're ridiculously expensive (I am NOT spending $35 on an apron!) so I'll probably get one of those $10 ones.
I forget how it happened, but we were talking about cooking last Thursday in Prosemimar and I was talking about how I cooked SO much food last Thanksgiving because I just love cooking, and a couple of the boys were like, "Uh, so next year we can help you with the leftovers, right?" I thought it was totally funny. Mom keeps telling me to hold "easy-peasy" cooking classes for college-age boys and I can see that she's right, but I'd never have the time or the equipment or anything like that for that kind of undertaking.
Alright, it's time to turn the heat down and start basting that game hen. Happy Sunday!
My mandatory hw is done (I'll try to do some not-so-mandatory homework after dinner), my housework is done, and the windows are open so my apartment is airing out.
Grocery shopping today was fun, especially at Ralph's where I paid $20 and when I got my receipt it said, "Verified Savings: $16.66" - I love saving money! And really, the only thing I didn't "need" were those mandarin oranges.
Yesterday I went to IKEA again and got that comforter cover - only it was $20 instead of $15 (how annoying) and now that it's on my bed it doesn't look quite right. Of course, my down blanket is not a full comforter, maybe it'll look better when I can afford a full comforter to put in it.
I finally got around to making the Harvard beets - and they're still not quite right. I think I have to use less water. Maybe a half-teaspoon more cornstarch or doubling the beets. I have to keep experimenting, I think.
So dinner tonight is garlic roast game hen, roast potato, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and Harvard beets. This eating healthily thing is a lot of work....and so, so worth it.
On Chopped Champions right now their dessert ingredients are Crema, taco shells, bosc pears, and red curry paste.
I would blend the taco shells and use them to make corn crepes with red curried marscapone cheese and the pears with a crema-caramel sauce.
They're doing nothing like that. I'm sure I would win...lol...
I'm sure you can see that I use way too much of my spare time watching Food Network. But I love food, and that's all there is to it!
I also got some beet juice on my khaki clamdiggers which really sucks, but I'll soak the spot in cold water tonight and put some of that stain stick on it. I suppose if worst comes to worst I can throw some rhinestones on there in a little pattern. I really need to get an apron but of course the one time I WANT to find aprons at Stein Mart they don't have them. Maybe I'll have to suck it up and order one off of Amazon. They have some GORGEOUS ones on there - all cutesy and pink and frilly (why do I like them? How did that happen?!) but they're ridiculously expensive (I am NOT spending $35 on an apron!) so I'll probably get one of those $10 ones.
I forget how it happened, but we were talking about cooking last Thursday in Prosemimar and I was talking about how I cooked SO much food last Thanksgiving because I just love cooking, and a couple of the boys were like, "Uh, so next year we can help you with the leftovers, right?" I thought it was totally funny. Mom keeps telling me to hold "easy-peasy" cooking classes for college-age boys and I can see that she's right, but I'd never have the time or the equipment or anything like that for that kind of undertaking.
Alright, it's time to turn the heat down and start basting that game hen. Happy Sunday!
Friday, March 4, 2011
California, contracts, and conferences
That's some pretty sweet alliteration, right??
So THIS week has been oodles of fun. Sunday I went to a farmers' market before doing my other grocery shopping and got lots of fresh fruits and veggies - beets, Brussels sprouts, strawberries and ANNONNAS! I got five and one avocado, and Monday morning I mailed off three annonnas and the avocado to Orlando. Unfortunately they arrived in "bad" condition, but as Mom says, at least they have the seeds now. I'm glad they enjoyed the avocado, seeing that it arrived safely. I can't figure out how, with ALL THAT BUBBLEWRAP I used, the annonnas didn't make it. I ate one annonna but the other isn't ripe so it's waiting on my counter until I deem it to be at the peak of yumminess.
Then I did my regular grocery shopping and worked all night on homework.
Monday I had my early class, rushed home, ate, rushed back to campus, desperately tried to pound the intricacies of SPSS17 into my poor brain, and then grabbed some dinner at Panda Express (I swear, it's my new second home there. After that (and some highly-treasured time with my Kindle) there was an emergency AGSA meeting so we could prep for the What To Do With A Degree In Anthropology event we were holding Wednesday.
After the meeting I had 561 (my computer class) and we were in a new lab learning NVivo (it used to be called NUDIST, but it never caught on for some reason...haha) and I'm going to have to try and get into that lab sometime this week to work on our homework lab, or I could download the month-long free trial...that might work better.
I got home at 10 and passed out.
Tuesday was spent doing shopping for the anthro event (we had a concession stand) and homework.
Wednesday rolled around and I went to campus early to pick up my paycheck...which wasn't there. Libby - the anthro secretary - promised to make some phonecalls about it.
Then, during my first class, I found out that my lab partner was in a motorcycle accident the night before and broke both of his legs and his nose. I sent him an email saying I was glad he didn't break his skull and I hoped he'd be better soon. In one way it's good for me because my new partner is Jake, who not only is a grad student and is pretty much my coworker already, but he has GIS skills already and will be absolutely invaluable to me in that respect as my GIS skills are as close to nil as you can get.
After lunch and an hour of 451 I left early (I do this every Wednesday due to scheduling conflicts) and went to GEOG400 (my stats class) and pretty much just worked on my 451 stuff since I've been done with my stats project in there for a day and a half. I'll print it all out on Monday (even though it won't be due for another week) and then redo my old project for extra credit before starting on Project 4.
After that I went home and ate dinner with my favorite news bloc before driving over to the Soroptimist House on campus (where we were holding the event) and dropping off the supplies. Luckily, Sharon had her car there so she followed me home and then drove me back to campus, saving me a half-hour of walking - I don't have a parking pass and can't park on campus.
The even was pretty good - we had a full house which was SO exciting. The speakers all talked longer than we expected them to, and Dr. Larson didn't show up, so I got up there and gave a three minute speech on the importance of CRM. Once again, I remembered why I only did Extemporaneous Speaking once in high school...I'm great at giving a speech I've thought about and have note cards for, but to get up cold and tell people about something - even something I'm really good at...not so much.
I ended up saying, "It's easiest to just answer questions, so if anyone has questions just let me know in the Q&A session." And then in the Q&A session those little brats just sat there mute! Only the grad students asked questions - to get them started you know, I remember being a shy undergrad! - but the kids just sat there with big eyes.
Oh well, I did my best and saints can't do better. I went home and let my mind go blissfully blank while the tv talked at me. It was lovely.
Thursday I got an email from Libby saying to go over to the office immediately and not do any work til I'd spoken to her. I rushed on over there and it turned out that my contract had expired in January and no one thought to tell me (or Dr. Lipo apparently) so I kept working. Libby (who is an angel, I swear) not only sorted through the bureaucratic tangle, but had a new contract all ready and waiting for me for February through June (although I'm technically done at the end of May and don't HAVE to work during June, even though I'll totally do what I can remotely from Florida and South Africa) which I signed and delivered personally. Libby says I should get two paychecks at the end of this month (yippee!) which will be lovely and I'll probably go out and have sushi to celebrate.
I really think I need to bring Libby some cookies.
Class last night was interesting - Dr. Quintiliani really liked my annotated bibliography so I really want her to like the second half as well (that's due this upcoming Thursday). I spent about 20 minutes talking to her after class about my concerns about my project and she seemed very pleased at how I was already interpreting the reading and research I've been doing.
This morning I got an email from Dr. Lipo saying well, you have less than a month to do this project but if you work very hard every day you might pull this off (gulp!) and gave me a list of stuff that needs to be done before the conference, which is now printed up and hanging over my desk. I'm running out of ink (and I put in a new cartridge a month and a half ago, damn grad school), but thankfully I have another black one so I don't have to get ink right this very minute. Maybe after I get those paychecks.
It's noon and I've already called the bank, but I still have a couple calls to make and a lot of writing to do (I want to get Essay 5 done today and hopefully rewrite some of my older essays to get higher marks on them, so I can rewrite the labs on Sunday) so I'll end here.
So THIS week has been oodles of fun. Sunday I went to a farmers' market before doing my other grocery shopping and got lots of fresh fruits and veggies - beets, Brussels sprouts, strawberries and ANNONNAS! I got five and one avocado, and Monday morning I mailed off three annonnas and the avocado to Orlando. Unfortunately they arrived in "bad" condition, but as Mom says, at least they have the seeds now. I'm glad they enjoyed the avocado, seeing that it arrived safely. I can't figure out how, with ALL THAT BUBBLEWRAP I used, the annonnas didn't make it. I ate one annonna but the other isn't ripe so it's waiting on my counter until I deem it to be at the peak of yumminess.
Then I did my regular grocery shopping and worked all night on homework.
Monday I had my early class, rushed home, ate, rushed back to campus, desperately tried to pound the intricacies of SPSS17 into my poor brain, and then grabbed some dinner at Panda Express (I swear, it's my new second home there. After that (and some highly-treasured time with my Kindle) there was an emergency AGSA meeting so we could prep for the What To Do With A Degree In Anthropology event we were holding Wednesday.
After the meeting I had 561 (my computer class) and we were in a new lab learning NVivo (it used to be called NUDIST, but it never caught on for some reason...haha) and I'm going to have to try and get into that lab sometime this week to work on our homework lab, or I could download the month-long free trial...that might work better.
I got home at 10 and passed out.
Tuesday was spent doing shopping for the anthro event (we had a concession stand) and homework.
Wednesday rolled around and I went to campus early to pick up my paycheck...which wasn't there. Libby - the anthro secretary - promised to make some phonecalls about it.
Then, during my first class, I found out that my lab partner was in a motorcycle accident the night before and broke both of his legs and his nose. I sent him an email saying I was glad he didn't break his skull and I hoped he'd be better soon. In one way it's good for me because my new partner is Jake, who not only is a grad student and is pretty much my coworker already, but he has GIS skills already and will be absolutely invaluable to me in that respect as my GIS skills are as close to nil as you can get.
After lunch and an hour of 451 I left early (I do this every Wednesday due to scheduling conflicts) and went to GEOG400 (my stats class) and pretty much just worked on my 451 stuff since I've been done with my stats project in there for a day and a half. I'll print it all out on Monday (even though it won't be due for another week) and then redo my old project for extra credit before starting on Project 4.
After that I went home and ate dinner with my favorite news bloc before driving over to the Soroptimist House on campus (where we were holding the event) and dropping off the supplies. Luckily, Sharon had her car there so she followed me home and then drove me back to campus, saving me a half-hour of walking - I don't have a parking pass and can't park on campus.
The even was pretty good - we had a full house which was SO exciting. The speakers all talked longer than we expected them to, and Dr. Larson didn't show up, so I got up there and gave a three minute speech on the importance of CRM. Once again, I remembered why I only did Extemporaneous Speaking once in high school...I'm great at giving a speech I've thought about and have note cards for, but to get up cold and tell people about something - even something I'm really good at...not so much.
I ended up saying, "It's easiest to just answer questions, so if anyone has questions just let me know in the Q&A session." And then in the Q&A session those little brats just sat there mute! Only the grad students asked questions - to get them started you know, I remember being a shy undergrad! - but the kids just sat there with big eyes.
Oh well, I did my best and saints can't do better. I went home and let my mind go blissfully blank while the tv talked at me. It was lovely.
Thursday I got an email from Libby saying to go over to the office immediately and not do any work til I'd spoken to her. I rushed on over there and it turned out that my contract had expired in January and no one thought to tell me (or Dr. Lipo apparently) so I kept working. Libby (who is an angel, I swear) not only sorted through the bureaucratic tangle, but had a new contract all ready and waiting for me for February through June (although I'm technically done at the end of May and don't HAVE to work during June, even though I'll totally do what I can remotely from Florida and South Africa) which I signed and delivered personally. Libby says I should get two paychecks at the end of this month (yippee!) which will be lovely and I'll probably go out and have sushi to celebrate.
I really think I need to bring Libby some cookies.
Class last night was interesting - Dr. Quintiliani really liked my annotated bibliography so I really want her to like the second half as well (that's due this upcoming Thursday). I spent about 20 minutes talking to her after class about my concerns about my project and she seemed very pleased at how I was already interpreting the reading and research I've been doing.
This morning I got an email from Dr. Lipo saying well, you have less than a month to do this project but if you work very hard every day you might pull this off (gulp!) and gave me a list of stuff that needs to be done before the conference, which is now printed up and hanging over my desk. I'm running out of ink (and I put in a new cartridge a month and a half ago, damn grad school), but thankfully I have another black one so I don't have to get ink right this very minute. Maybe after I get those paychecks.
It's noon and I've already called the bank, but I still have a couple calls to make and a lot of writing to do (I want to get Essay 5 done today and hopefully rewrite some of my older essays to get higher marks on them, so I can rewrite the labs on Sunday) so I'll end here.
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