So, I finally made the transition to daylight savings and woke up at 8:15 am, and I crashed out after a long day at 11:15 pm and got a whole 3 hours sleep before I woke up again, oh well.
Tomorrow is going to be really busy, apart from lab work I have to ring Soba after work to confirm stuff for the Ball, dinner with R***** at 7:30 pm, hunt for shoes in Kingston, shave my legs and attend the meeting of the Queer Collective in the afternoon.
I did the calculations today, and discovered that for a 300 page thesis that for the next 3 months I'd have to write over 3 pages a day to get it in on time. Suffice to say that this didn't exactly buoy me with enthusiasm.
Looking back over the last few months, I think I've been doing Ok. For someone who is naturally as withdrawn and introverted as myself, I think that I've really pushed myself with positive results. Attending these workshops without anyone forcing me or holding my hand, being able to shop by myself in girl-mode, single handedly writing a half-hour seminar for the QC2000 conference in only 5 days while shifting rooms at the same time, these and other things have given me some self-confidence for this newly emerged butterfly to realize it isn't so fragile after all.
Now, if I can successfully attack this thesis and win, I'll be damn proud of my year. It's 4 months (122 days) till the end of 2000, about 2.5 pages a day can I do it?
I suppose I exaggerate, technically a large chunk of the thesis is experimental descriptions and data which are not very hard to write or which I have already typed up. I suppose I might already have 50 pages done in this fashion… of course that still leaves another 250 pages to go, but hey, I've got about 70 compounds (so far), so it's not like I'm running short of things to talk about.