Actually ready for holidays to end
Jan. 7th, 2010 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI've had so much fun this vacation, and have loved every moment of it, yet, honestly, I'm getting kind of tired of socializing all of the time. At the middle of December I had been averaging just over 40 hours a week of Uni work for the month. By the end of the month that number had dropped to 12.8 hours a week, and "social" had risen to 42.4 hours/week (from nearly non-existent during the first half of the month. So far this month I've averaged 6.4 hours/week of uni work, and 62.7 hours a week of "social". No wonder I'm getting tired! However, there is still one more weekend to go before I go home. 12th Night. Also known as the West Kingdom Cocktail party. A weekend devoted to hundreds of short "nice to see you" conversations interspersed with a Friday Night Bardic, Court, Play, Saturday Night Ball, and a plethora of other distractions. I'm looking forward to it as a chance to see lots of people I care about and rarely see because they can't afford to travel to the places I've been living, but, on the other hand, yet more fun sounds almost daunting. Dare I face the peril? Funny, back when I was purchasing my plane tickets saving 400 Euros by staying the extra week sounded like such a good idea. Who would have thought I'd hit overload in only 3.5 weeks?
Today's "uni work" consisted of filing my receipts for expenses at the confrence (the good news is that I don't have to return any cash, I actually spent all of the funding they gave me) and looking up the deadlines (15 and 18 January!) for abstract submission for some conferences coming up in May, and sending an e-mail asking my boss if I should attend either or both of them. If he says "yes" I need to get straight on writing the abstracts!
It is now midnight. I have to leave for the airport at 04:00, and will arrive in SFO around 09:00. Then I've got the rest of Thursday and Friday during the day to do as I will before the event. Here's hoping I actually spend part of that time working, I'd like to see "uni work" go back up to a respectable number of hours per week!
Today's "uni work" consisted of filing my receipts for expenses at the confrence (the good news is that I don't have to return any cash, I actually spent all of the funding they gave me) and looking up the deadlines (15 and 18 January!) for abstract submission for some conferences coming up in May, and sending an e-mail asking my boss if I should attend either or both of them. If he says "yes" I need to get straight on writing the abstracts!
It is now midnight. I have to leave for the airport at 04:00, and will arrive in SFO around 09:00. Then I've got the rest of Thursday and Friday during the day to do as I will before the event. Here's hoping I actually spend part of that time working, I'd like to see "uni work" go back up to a respectable number of hours per week!