Biocity today

Today work went much better. I even got one nice result. I really believe in power of last minute panic. So, I did too more experiments today. I hope that I'll finish them before Sunday. That is the deadline. On Monday all the figures for the conference have to be ready. Somehow I believe that I'll manage.. :) That is comforting. So now, when it is almost midnight I am still in BioCity working. I have Tequila with me, she does not really like this place.

Anyway, although I really trust that things always work out I am soon starting to loose all hope when it comes to my private life. Yes, I am doing fine, I am happy, things are good but some evenings, like today, I really would like to have someone to come home to. Or a very good reason to not stay so late at work. Even though I recognize the risk that I would be very annoyed if someone would tell me to come home right now.. So perhaps everything is at it should be. I just wish I had someone to go on holiday with :) even though it is nice to read a good book as well. And I have to write two essays on my vacation (unless I manage to do it next week), apply for one grant and write one report. I could also work a little, just because I have so great results and I really do love working the night through. But I'll take that break, because I know that I'll need it (but I'll read some Psychology books anyway, just because I want to). Stubborn workaholic.

Catastrophe

There are different kinds of days, those that everything runs smoothly and those days when you do not even recognize yourself. Yesterday was one of the latter.

It started in the morning, and I should have known already then that I should just stay in bed. And to be true to you, that was kind of what I wanted to. I could not manage to get to work before 10.30. When I finally arrived all the disasters started to happen. I was miss scatter brain. Me, the person that is always on top of everything. The person that can manage 15 different things at the same time without any problems could not even boil water without burning it. The weirdest thing is that I did it twice. I also forgot to remove some essential parts from my gels as well, something that merely destroyed my last shot for a perfect figure before next week's conference. When I tried to get water and forgot to put the graduated cylinder beneath the tap, something that resulted in about half a liter of water on the floor I almost started to cry, but then I decided to laugh hysterically instead. The rest of the day the only thing my student had to do was to look after me. And at about 4pm I had managed to pull myself together, at least that is what I hope... I will find out when I go back to work.

I hope the building is still where it is supposed to be.

PS At the pub quiz we lost by 0,5 points...

Tequila

Here I am again sitting with Tequila on my side. I love her so much. She turned 16 a week ago, that scares me. I am not sure what a life without Tequila would be. Lately we have been enjoying the summer. 

I love the colours. The greens and blues and the warm sun. I am still amazed how much colour everything has. I am not sure wether I have not been able to see it the past years or if the long winter made me forget about it. But I am grateful that I can experience and enjoy all the feelings the warm summer breeze, the birds' song, the smell of grass, the gravel under my feet and especially the colours awake in me. How can someone forget about this? 

It has been a very long and tough winter, but now it is over. Now I am enjoying the summer with my dearest Tequila. I am working my ass off, but I don't care because at this very moment I want to do it. In three weeks I'll have vacation. It feels like it is coming a little too soon, and that is i a little too long. But I am sure that it won't feel like that in a couple of weeks. Life is good at the moment, and I intend to keep it like that.