Stress

[tarigwaemir]

Lowell House, on the Feast of Ste. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Meant to post part 2 of "An Exorcism" days ago, but my parents dragged me away to evening Mass on New Year's Eve, then I conked out and slept the better part of New Year's Day, and of course, the day after was spent packing...I arrived in Cambridge yesterday, after my parents drove through rain, snow, sleet, rainy snow, snowy rain, and every combination in between to get here. Anyway, part 2 will be posted as soon as I can bring myself to edit it. >_> Sorry, I need to have a clear head to edit, and I've been rather distracted lately.

To top things off, I caught a cold the day before I left, and despite my adamant refusal to fall sick during reading period, my immune system hasn't been cooperating. What are those lymphocytes doing?! Aren't the infected cells producing enough interferon? Is something wrong with my Toll receptors? Okay, okay, I'll shut up before I regurgitate the entire signal transduction pathway.

I am feeling overwhelmed because I have a hanja quiz tomorrow, on top of having to finish my poster (by 3 PM when it is scheduled for printing) and put together the final draft of my paper (I forgot how much I hate writing figure captions, argh). Plus, packing for LA. All during break, I was complaining to everyone who would listen that I didn't know why I talked myself into applying for this conference, but now that I've looked at the schedule, I'm actually looking forward to it. As in, not just looking forward to being in warmer weather, but looking forward to the actual papers and projects being presented. There are several interesting titles on the program, including a bioinformatics lecture, a tissue bioengineering or biophysics presentation, and another on "genome-wide screening", which I hope is going to be about RNAi techniques. Of course, there are also many titles that I can't comprehend at all (e.g. "Element Stacking Technique for the Topology Optimization of Continua Having Multiple Boundary Conditions and Materials") and a few that sound utterly frivolous, but on the whole, I think it'll be fun. Well, except for the skit. -_- I bet that even when I'm sixty, someone somewhere will demand that I participate in some sort of group skit.

Anyway, yes, somehow take quiz, print poster, send off paper, pack, and then get up early to catch an 8 AM flight on Friday morning. Oh, I am going to be so sleep-deprived. Must get up at 5:30 tomorrow too. But must also stay up late to finish poster. Argh. I'm going to work on it for an hour and then we'll just have to see what happens. If nothing else, we will resort to the "lots of pictures, no text" scheme. Maybe I can recycle the text from the poster for the figure captions on the paper. Hm.

What I really want to do, though, is read Ravages of Time. ;_; And go to bed because I feel rather nauseous.

I wanted to post some recs, but I forgot which links they were. All right, self, enough of this nervous babbling, go work on your poster. (Thank goodness for Remote Desktop.)

Yours &c.

Comments

[schwimmerin.livejournal.com]

You can do it, ribosome!

Hope you feel better *huggles*

[unrequitedangst.livejournal.com]

"Element Stacking Technique for the Topology Optimization of Continua Having Multiple Boundary Conditions and Materials"

That is an utterly terrifying article title. I -- uh, sincerely hope the abstract makes more sense? @.@;;

Am sorry you're not feeling well. -.- Good luck on the conference & associated work. I hope you feel better soon!

[jaebi-lit.livejournal.com]

*whimpers* All those big science-y words...O_O

Good luck with finishing everything, and LA will be fabulously warm (unless it's getting hit with the same storms that have been knocking over trees up here. But it probably is still warm.).

[tryogeru.livejournal.com]

Stalk Eric Szmanda for me! Tell him I want the most recent CSI 'cause I didn't record it right!

...Ahem. Ok. Have fun, and feel better~