busy busy

This week was busy. Wednesday I made dinner for the guys and told them to ignore the large pile of boxes everywhere. I tried to pack a little each day and clean things. E and I were busy this morning and I emptied all the rest of the kitchen cabinets except for one. I cleaned all of them inside and out, those little white mr. clean sponges work miracles on white cupboards!

My co-author also gave back the paper to me to make changes and although most changes were minor he had quite a few suggestions for adding more material in paragraph y, topic x, etc. That led to looking up more papers and reading a bunch more just to add a paragraph or a couple of sentences and citations here and there. He also asked for more figures... I have 5 figures and 2 tables, doesn't that seem like enough? He asked for more 'real' tissue pictures which are the most time consuming to make and the most difficult to get right. My PI is a perfectionist about those, "Oh, this piece of tissue has a small abnormality in the corner (opposite from the structure of interest) can you find another one?" AAHHHH! It is real tissue folks that means sometimes the angle is slightly different, I'm not a machine! or there is a crack or bubble on the edge... I just sent her three attempts at new figures. We'll see what she says.

I also got back two chapters of my prospectus but I haven't had time to look at them. Besides the rewriting, I've still been running long data collection sessions and my other animals too.

I have to go home now to keep packing and cleaning.