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objectively stressful, right?
Jul. 18th, 2011 12:43 pmTomorrow: I have class (which I thought would be over by now), so a trip across campus on the bad foot, a portfolio due, and a final presentation.
Before Wednesday evening: I have a poster to finish and print, because I'm traveling to Chicago for an academic conference, at which the hotel is full and I don't yet know where I'm staying. [ETA: Okay, I have a hotel. It's a mile away, but transit and cabs exist.]
Wednesday morning-afternoon: I have a lab meeting presentation to give, plus all day I am showing my time-lapse process to a software guy.
By the end of July, but really RIGHT NOW: I don't know how to replace my lost passport soon enough to make my travel arrangements for going to Japan in September; they want a passport number before they can make reservations, but the agencies for getting things promptly require "proof of travel." [ETA: Called passport people again; no help. Wrote to Japanese admin asking why they need it and whether 2-3 week turnaround will work, else can they write me a letter saying why they need it as "proof."]
Before fall quarter?: I need to have a committee meeting, but my advisor is being weird (saying we should meet but then not suggesting a time or seeming available at all, telling me she doesn't know what's going on but then telling me how much work I'm not doing).
Someday? When?: Finish my Ph.D. but GOD KNOWS WHEN.
Before Wednesday evening: I have a poster to finish and print, because I'm traveling to Chicago for an academic conference, at which the hotel is full and I don't yet know where I'm staying. [ETA: Okay, I have a hotel. It's a mile away, but transit and cabs exist.]
Wednesday morning-afternoon: I have a lab meeting presentation to give, plus all day I am showing my time-lapse process to a software guy.
By the end of July, but really RIGHT NOW: I don't know how to replace my lost passport soon enough to make my travel arrangements for going to Japan in September; they want a passport number before they can make reservations, but the agencies for getting things promptly require "proof of travel." [ETA: Called passport people again; no help. Wrote to Japanese admin asking why they need it and whether 2-3 week turnaround will work, else can they write me a letter saying why they need it as "proof."]
Before fall quarter?: I need to have a committee meeting, but my advisor is being weird (saying we should meet but then not suggesting a time or seeming available at all, telling me she doesn't know what's going on but then telling me how much work I'm not doing).
Someday? When?: Finish my Ph.D. but GOD KNOWS WHEN.
