Today I was in at work by 8:30 am and out at 10 pm. The day itself was taken up with an experiment, and the evening was spent working on the review. Although I wrote a fair bit, I lost a lot from the debacle over excluding certain authors on Tuesday and then I discovered that in my disorganization I had written about some things twice. The review itself is for a special edition of a scientific journal which will be coming out in a few months, my main task being to make it sufficiently different from a previous review from my supervisor submitted elsewhere a few months back. Suffice to say I am looking forward to November.
Yesterday was pretty good though a little crazy. I had my last regular appointment with my surgeon, but he hadn't arrived yet so the nurse gave everything the Ok. I got into work around 10:30 am and got straight into writing, by the late afternoon I had knocked the draft into fairly reasonable shape and my boss asked to have a look. He seemed to like it and had a few suggestion which thankfully were easy to accommodate. It's still some way from completion, but we have another month to work on it.
I left around 5 pm and came home. Avi had called and let me know that Anthony's party was going to be at Ben's place that night. I ducked down to the bookstore to grab a present and then some alcohol. The guys were running late but they picked me up about 7:30 pm and we drove down, it was fairly busy already with the usual crowd of regulars. ;) We got there just as the food started to come online and although I started off on pre-mixed Pina Colada's, it tasted too sweet and for whatever insanity I moved onto rum and coke. I almost never drink that because of seeing and smelling so much of it being drunk and often regurgitated in college.
Well, I pretty much went through each phase of drunkenness that night. First happy, then tipsy, then dancy, then sexy and then by about 2 am just plain tired. Avi drove Anthony and I home but the car was making me sicker and sicker till at a stop light I said weakly "I don't feel so well guys..." then opened the back door and got rid of the last few shots of rum and coke in a most unladylike fashion.
Certainly I didn't want anyone seeing me like that, but Avi and Anthony are very cool about it all. I was in a pretty down mode and told them how my contract wasn't going to be renewed and so forth and they were very sympathetic. Anthony gave me a lift home from Avi's place and I crashed straight into bed.