Sometimes life just likes to hijak you and take you for a ride, no matter how much you might protest. And that’s pretty much what it’s been doing to me recently. Luckily, life has been a pretty nice hijacker and hasn’t thrown too much abuse my way, but it has been keeping me running around like a chicken with my head cut off, hence the lack of blog updates.

For starters, yours truly, formerly known as a creature of the night, is now getting up at 8:30 every morning for a 9:30am class that meets every freaking day of the week. Starting this week, I’m going to be going to labs for this class in the afternoons as well. More info on that to come…

I’m preparing for my last qualifying exam (to be taken on the 25th) so that I can finally propose my dissertation.

I’m still sitting on a committee that’s supposed to be hammering out ways to improve the (financial) quality of life of current grad students at my university.

I’m still working for moolah at the library.

So the short version is that I’ve been on campus every day of the week, usually spending more than 8 hours there at a time. Booooo!

On the plus side, part of that excessive amount of time on campus this week was spent hanging out with infamous partner-in-crime Celia who took a short sabbatical from her time in Germany to visit. Yay! This meant I had a great time shooting the breeze, eating good food, and drawing hilaiously terrible pictures with good friends. It also means I was putting in the overtime today trying to catch up on two rather tedious subjects: philosophy of science and histology. Doesn’t help that between ten and midnight is pretty much my bedtime these days. I’m such an old lady!!!

And the real coup de grace is the Halloween party that I’ve got to start pulling together soon. I think this is the first time I’ve ever greeted Halloween as a burden rather than a joy. Poo! :-(