I should be a huge mess. Let's see what I've got on my plate, shall we? I'm still trucking away at my proposal for my general exam that is due Monday morning. I should have my slides finished to turn in tomorrow for a presentation next week (haven't even really looked at the data yet). I need to be gathering data together so that I can start working on my presentation for ARVO, the big international vision meeting I will be presenting at in May in Seattle. I need to plan said trip to ARVO in May. I need to try to plan an Ohio trip. A New Orleans trip. A Boston/Philly/Rhode Island trip. And, if time and money permits, although probably not, a California trip. I need to start studying in earnest for my 3 hour oral exam in which I'm expected to know every tiny thing about my project and every tiny thing about general Cell Biology and Molecular Biology that I've learned since starting graduate school. I need to finish moving from our apartment to our new house. I need to finish cleaning the new house. I need to get the old apartment cleaned by this Sunday. I need to finish separating the belongings from the apartment I shared with the ex and try to stop the fighting over these belongings that has been brewing. I need to move those separated belongings to the new house. I need to start on the garden at the new house before its too late. I need to plan a garage sale to get rid of a bunch of extra shit left at the new house and shit we don't need, plus to get some funds for all those trips I need to plan. I need to start on all those experiments in the lab that have been put off while I'm writing. I need to find time to spend with my dogs, who I really haven't spent time around in months. I'm helping my friend to feel better while she's dealing with the fact that she's either having a miscarriage, or possibly carrying a baby with any of several kinda scary birth defects and she won't know for weeks whether she needs to make a decision about whether to keep it or not. I'm sitting at the library cramping and bleeding without any "lady" supplies so I'm using toilet paper until I can get enough done on this proposal to feel better about going back home and finally eating a real meal today. Suddenly one of my sisters and one of my cousins aren't talking to me anymore (no real loss there but it is funny).
All I want to do is travel and make the new house awesome and spend time with the boyfriend, but I'll have to wait until at lead mid-May before I have any real time to spend on any of that. But you know what? I'm really not freaking out. Sure, I'm feeling some stress, but not the kind I had the entire first year of graduate school. The kind that made me sick and miserable. Its just the regular "I'm busy" kind. Its pretty nice actually, although I'm hoping that I'm at a good mid-point and not just in a major procrastination lull.
Anyway, it helps to have someone so calm living with me. I know that when I have no time, he'll be there to help with whatever I need. He can cook me delicious food while I study. He can help me finish moving and planting and cleaning. He's there to calm me when I start to get to a point of freakedoutness. Its a good thing.
Now, wish me luck. I have FINALLY figured out how to effectively use Endnote for my citations and it is a lifesaver. I'm in love with it, and now I must go use it to fill in all those pesky places where it says (ref???) at the end of the sentence. I must go finish my proposal so that I can focus on all those other things on my to do list!
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