Whew?

So this has been a crazy week. Wednesday I had my little presentation thinger, which turned out to be pretty chill, nothing to worry about. Then I went home and studied all night for my geology test.

Thursday I had my test early in the morning, then I went and got some lunch and read a paper during lunch for the theory meeting. Then it was the theory meeting, and it was Judy, Jake and me but it was a really in-depth one and I was mentally exhausted anyway so it was a little hard for me to follow.

Then I went to the post office and got a pamphlet about how to get your mail forwarded with the USPS website instead of waiting in line for hours - you would not have BELIEVED the length of that line!

The rest of Thursday was spent working on the NAGPRA stuff so I could get it to my boss early on Friday for him to check. I went to bed at about 3 am and got up at 10 am and finished my work at 1:30 when I emailed it all off to my boss.

Half an hour later I got an email back saying that I had a lot of collections in there that needed to be taken out - ones from other countries that don't fall under NAGPRA - and I needed to change the charts around from the way I had them. Then after a lot of editing and back and forthing, he finally said that everything was "too confusing" and that I shouldn't have used everything from the master list because we didn't have all that stuff anymore and I should've just used the collections we have.
Annoyingly, early in the semester I'd made a list of all the collections in the lab and emailed it to my boss and he told me not to bother with that, but to use his master list instead.

So I spent my Friday afternoon and evening in the lab making up a new list and pulling those non-NAGPRA boxes to move to the PH1 lab sometimes next week. Luckily, there are only 9 of them and they're not too heavy, because there's no elevator in that building and the lab is on the second floor, so I'll have to carry those boxes up all the stairs.

I was so upset and discombobulated at this point that being in the lab really really started to upset me - I've never been bothered by skeletons before. Even in my forensics classes when we were shown people whose heads were blown open by gunfire, and bodies riddled with syphilis, I wasn't freaked out at all. But pulling down a box to check its tab and finding a skull inside of it staring at me just weirded me out bigtime. Plus there was one box that has no lid and was just FULL of fragmented skulls and it made me think of Polyphemus' cave or something.

I finally went home late that night - I don't remember when, and called Mom and Dad on the way home. Then I made myself a really nice dinner - curried prawns - and watched tv while I ate. Then I went back to work and typed up my notes from the lab and emailed them off to my professor so he could use them in the lab today. I also wrote a 10 page paper for my theory final in 4 hours.

Today I got up late again, edited my theory essay, and started working on my cultural resource management essay. It's only about 8 and a bit pages right now, plus a bibliography, so I need to work on it some more, but I have SOMETHING to hand in if my brain explodes/implodes tomorrow.

My boss hasn't emailed me with more work so I'm hoping (praying?) that everything is okay now. I THOUGHT I was following his directions correctly - and he certainly never said anything was wrong when I emailed him my work periodically through the semester.
So I don't know. I guess all I can do is wait and see?

I've spent the past few hours watching Netflix. Man, this was SUCH a good investment. All I need is some junk food, but I'm trying to be good considering that Christmas is coming and I gained a lot of weight this semester anyway. So I didn't buy any when I got "groceries" today - really just an onion, a cucumber, paper towels and dish soap. Luckily, paper towels and dish soap don't spoil so I could stock up without having to freak out about leaving them while I'm at home.

Home! It sounds so lovely, even though as soon as I get home I have to start getting ready for the Christmas party. I have no idea what I'm going to wear...maybe I can find some time on Tuesday to go shopping for a dress, because Wednesday is going to be entirely packing and cleaning. This apartment is going to be SPOTLESS when I leave...and probably really dusty when I come back. Oh well, such is life.

I'm tired now, I think it's time for more Netflix. They should send me Season 2 of Scooby Doo soon and I'm excited because I think that's the one with my favorite episode - the one where they're in an ice cream factory.

I miss being a kid!!