Pure, actually dumb, luck

So I overslept thi morning, I think I must have forgot to set my alarm last night due to being really really tired. I slept like a rock though, but woke up a little after 8 (when I should have been on my way to the shuttle that goes out to the other campus) to my cellphone ringing. It was my dear friend and fellow plant lover J, who was calling to tell me that the power was completely off on that campus. Sweet! I then went back to bed.

The stress, it cometh

Things have been going really well recently, I completed another assay and even managed to analyse motst of the data already (though I've heard through one of my labmates that I may need to change some of my equations). I got to go home and have an extra long, long weekend (for us Canucks, though its been rather wet and cold so not exactly a time to celebrate summer) and even got some work done here! Despite the weather, its been a great weekend, seeing people, including a newly significant person (we saw Star Trek in IMAX - geek squee! squared!). I'm currently sitting in my PJs and making cupcakes for my Daddy's birthday.

However, this relaxation shall not last. I basically need to have all my data in hand in 2 weeks, along with preparing them to go into a presentation I'm giving at a conference in slightly less than 3 weeks. Cue the freak out. I've so far avoided a total breakdown and as things are seeming to be working should be able to do so. I'm bribing myself with the promise of a massage once I get through a particular annoying set of results, which should help as well. But even once I've gotten through this presentation it still means I'll have less than one month to have a draft of everything in hand to have it ready to be pre-reviewed by my department for early August. As I've said before, it'll be tight. 

However, the promise of getting to move back to the O-town, along with a trip I'm now planning to Italy in October, there is a lot motivating me. I will definitely miss Montreal though and I will be definitely taking the time to enjoy it and all my friends while I can. I am resolved to make my days productive and my nights/weekends a ton of fun. Wish me luck!

(P.S. if anyone has any MUST SEES in Rome/Venice/Florence, please let me know!)

Busyness

Since returning to Mtl things have continued to be crazypants! (My word of the month btw)
I was welcomed back to town with a fabulous soiree organized by the equally fabulous x-ine (check out her blog on the side if you haven't, she's my labmate in arms!) which involved me drinking a hella lot of wine rather early in the evening. Topped off with almost wholly liquor cocktails at the next party I attended that evening, it was a good night. The rest of the weekend was just as great, its really nice to be back.
Not only have I drank hugely since getting back I have also been really productive! Draft of my thesis intro is done and today I started the next part of the chemical work for my thesis, with quite encouraging results.
But I know that I am also about to be rather distracted as today the next book by one of my very favourite authors is out - Jen Lancaster's Pretty in Plaid! According to her description its all about the eighties and CLOTHES! Since the eighties was that glorious decade in which the world got ME and I also really like clothes, I am terribly excited. I would bring it with me on the bus out to Mac these days but considering I usually cannot read her books in public as I snicker too much, I won't. In any case if you've never read one of her books you simply must. Go now. Like right now. You can catch up with me later!

I'm actually now about to eat too much pizza and giggle at Idol, a good end to another busy day!