tired...

Do you ever have a day where you realize you put your underwear on inside out? Well that happened to me last week and that is sort of how I felt the whole week felt. I worked about 12 hours everyday and didn't make much progress because my PI and I kept changing our minds.

Last week I got an email from the organizing committee for my small satellite conference to give a short talk, in addition to my poster presentation at the meeting. While this is a nice offer I feel unprepared and unready to do this. Yet I'm doing it anyway. I have less than 3 weeks to prepare. And my PI decided that 'we' didn't like how I analyzed my data for the international conference. So after trying about 4 different ways last week, I started running over 900 preliminary analyses for the up coming conference data set. I re-analyzed most of what I had done before and still have 3 or 4 other secondary sets of data to run. (Depending on if I can do it!) E came in and helped me for 8 hours each on Saturday and Sunday and I stayed later. I'm just wore out but I'm only really getting started sorting through all the results and summarizing them into a meaningful way. I'm going home early tonight at 7 just so I can make dinner and watch Castle (my guilty, cheesy pleasure!)

Also, comments like this do NOT motivate or inspire me, "Oh I wish we had 6 months for you to prepare for this!" (when this person is the one pushing me to give the talk, with less than optimal time to prepare!)