Oof.

I'm pretty proud of myself.

Today started badly - I woke at 7:30, decided I was tired, set a timer for 30 minutes...and woke up at TEN A.M.  One of my friends pointed out that my body clearly needed the rest, so I shouldn't feel bad, but I still do.

Then, I checked my email and I'd forgotten to turn in my timesheet yesterday.  ACK.  Sent some frantic emails and got the whole thing sorted out in half an hour or so, many blessings upon the payroll woman who was so patient with me!!!

Finally managed to settle down and get some work done, then headed off to class.  After class I buttonholed the professor and told him about my woes in regards to graduating on time/GIS certificate/classes offered next semester, and he gave me the name of a professor to email, and assured me (as did another student waiting in line) that they "make substitutions" all the time.  I have all my fingers and toes crossed; I haven't heard back yet, but I'm sure he's a very busy man, and this isn't the easiest time of the semester for anyone!

Was full of hope on my way home and got a lot more work done before heading off to scuba.  We had such a fun lecture, all about nautical archaeology, and then went to dive lab and learned how to dive with full-face masks.  It is extremely weird - EXTREMELY! - but I'm glad to know how to do it.  We're going to do one more dive lab (at least) with them, but I'll be very glad to go back to the regular setup. 

Then I came home, thinking I could finish my conference poster in half an hour or so and get to bed.  HA!

First, I realized this computer doesn't have Picasa on it, so I tried to download it...and Google is no longer supporting Picasa!!  It was so damn simple and useful and I just LOVED it.  Now I have to save up and buy Lightroom, and I'm simply FURIOUS about it.  I'll just edit all my photos on my old laptop until I have the money for Lightroom, sucks to Google.  I downloaded GIMP to get what I needed done, done, and THEN Rhino started screwing up so that it took me well over an hour to do what should have taken two minutes.  It was my fault for leaving it open for hours and letting my computer sleep with the program running, but still.  GRR!

Then I had to finish the actual poster and as you can see by this timestamp, it took me until 1:30 am, so THREE hours to do what I thought would take 30 minutes.  But I've emailed it off to a couple people to proofread it for me, and I've sent the three amphorae I've done to the people on the project for their comments, so I have really done very well today.

But now it's time to go to bed and collapse.  I was going to get up early tomorrow and Get Things Done before work so I could have a lovely, relaxed Friday evening after work, but now...not looking like it.  Sigh.  Grad school is not for the faint of heart!