[psa] aaaaaaaaaaaah

[kaberett]

• I am PICKING UP MY ROCKS from a partner institution tomorrow
  
• these are The Last Rocks Of The PhD
  
• I have 'til end-December to Measure All The Rocks
  
  • ... which is a bit stressful because What If The Very Expensive Vacuum Leak Doesn't Cooperate
    
  • which is something I can't really schedule for, which means I can't make concrete plans for how quickly I'll get through stuff
    
  • not least because I've only got enough beakers for 2x sets of (=20) ready-to-analyse samples
    
  • and while I am only picking up ~26 samples, a bunch of those I will effectively need to analyse twice, for Reasons
    
  • so I can't even go "right let's get all the chemistry done and then blitz the analysis", I gotta actually swap back and forth between them, and if the mass spec isn't behaving then I gotta keep trying mass spec before I can do more chemistry
    
  • which would be less stressful if it hadn't taken me four multi-day sessions to get any data at ALL off the last sample set I was trying to measure
  
  
• and then once I've done that I have? to finish? writing the PhD?
  
• and I'm "only" going to have five chapters (introduction, three data chapters, conclusion), which I am currently feeling Inadequate about because the thesis I'm reading as background on these rocks has eight (EIGHT!!!) (8!!!!!!) chapters
  
• and by the way I'm having a prolonged mental health crash for indeterminate reasons of therefore uncertain duration AND I'm still sleeping all the time FOR reasons that are still unclear
  
• ...
  
• so if I am being Even More Dilatory Than Usual in responses/engagement/etc, it's not that I don't care, it's just that
  
• *waves*
  
• aaaaaaaaah?
  
• oh right and weekend after next I'm going on An Holiday at which I need to be able to give Two Talks and, like, they're SKETCHED and IN MY HEAD but. um. I should probably make slides. and have a slightly clearer idea of what in the hell I want to say.

Comments

[wohali]

go go go! so exciting!