It has been an unbelievably manic week, even though I submitted my thesis on Monday. After that I got a paper (my first first-author paper) accepted, although I had to make loads of changes which have taken me all week. Best thing was it got accepted just before I had to submit a funding application so I got to include it. The funding application had to be submitted last night and after much to-ing and fro-ing of emails and panicked midnight phonecalls to UK finance offices, it was all finished and submitted in time. And then finally, the guy I'm planning to work for has offered me some work from as soon as I get home til I get my own funding - which is fantastic! I won't get funding til at least the end of this year, so being able to get on with something useful and interesting in the meantime is a big bonus. It means that I'm gonna get pretty much no time to say hello to everyone and get over the flight before I have to dart off to Bristol, but hey - at least it's a couple of hours in the train instead of a day in a plane to get home and visit people!
So yeah - it's been mental! I've got a huge pile of things still to be done, but there's been quite a few things ticked off the list this week!
And yes there were three pisco sours (which were still great) and a glass of wine on Monday followed by a slightly slow Tuesday!
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Congratulations on your thesis. I always feel bad for complaining about being so busy too because other people have real jobs on top of all the stuff I have to do. I might have kids, but I've never had to isolate an enzyme from bacterial genomic DNA. That sounds time consuming!
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