#mildthoughts

The state now, at the end of the month: I sacrificed my last weekend and dropped by the lab for 2-3hrs on both Saturday and Sunday. Which is another thing I did not want to do anymore in 2019 : go to work on weekends. No, no! But there I was and I must say I actually enjoyed the momentum that I kept up and the work I did those days wasn’t challenging, it was basically just putting solvents into samples and starting machines to measure them over the weekend. This provided me with data on Monday, to work and play around with.

Yesterday, 3 days before the deadline I had been working towards (I also have 2 student assistants, who helped a lot and worked their butts of with me.), I received an email, announcing, again, the deadline, introducing a second deadline which I will now use for my project.... it’s in august. FFS! I mean, it gave me the gift of having a weekend right now and all, but, oh well. It’s nice to see what you can achieve in such a short amount of time.

I was in such a rut all of the last few months and now, with data**, I feel so much motivation and all. It’s remarkable. This is more of a rambling kind of diary entry, but cheers to you if you read this far.

However, the message from this is: Keep on keeping on. It’ll all work out. Speak up more often, ask questions.

* I focussed on something different, also important, but had to work on a project in 2-3 weeks that would normally easily take more than 6-8 weeks.