Accomplishments!

I have done a TON this week!

I had a million things to do before I could turn in my conference slides for a 75 minute talk. Those were due Friday. I had drafted a version earlier this month and had run all my stats. Did that help?? You would think! I worked all day Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday night, and Friday night to get those things done. I felt I couldn't present a summary of my work until I had written the article. So 5,000 words later, I was finally done. It was actually harder to cut down the words from 8,000 or however many I had in the original draft study. Either way, I am really close to submitting that first study for publication! One more look-through and it will be ready!

I finished all my slides by Friday morning at 5AM. Slept until 10:30 for a noon meeting, and had to confront someone I won't mention about an email I sent two weeks ago regarding a letter I had requested for Tuesday. Got my vague answer. Shopped at Target a bit. Came home and more WORK! I don't know why I am on such a roll this week! I do have a bit of insomnia though left over from my 3am nights (almost every day this week, and Tues/Thurs I have to be up at 630 for work and teaching. Since I couldn't sleep on Friday, I went ahead and burned through the assignments in my queue to grade and emailed them back. After this Tuesday, I will get a break for 2 full weeks on grading! Yea for starting Unit 2!

I took yesterday (Saturday) off and lounged around playing video games on my DS and reading Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson. M's parents gave me a copy for Christmas! Loved it. It was on par with Life Among the Savages which I loved! Around 6pm or so I got an email from my adviser asking about departmental scholarships (due Tues), so I wrote back and said yes I am planning on applying! and wrote up my plans upon graduation. I sent those off to my two people and used part of the draft for one of my scholarship applications. I also updated my Teaching Philosophy and used THAT as part of my scholarships too! So I am about 80% done with both. I need to finish the departmental one tonight (other isn't due til the 16th). Smug! :)

I still have a big list of things I need to do (work on article #2 and some applications for summer fellowships) but I feel really good about what all I got done this week! I was completely evil by Thursday though, with combined lack of sleep and no real end in sight. I am so glad I got everything submitted on time!

It has been a good weekend. I am glad I took ALL of yesterday off (except for that little bit of work) and I feel relaxed once again. And how is it almost February? M will be here in 1 month and I take my exams in 3 months. Positively insane! I am moving at a really good pace though! Interviews start tomorrow for my study.