but i'm a little sadistic. i'm certainly a workaholic, overachiever, perfectionist. this month just hasn't had time to let the usual fuck-ups and distractions in, and i can feel it. my shoulders are a little straighter, i can finally talk to the department head at length about my thesis because i finally have a fucking clue about what's actually going on, and goddamn if i'm not going to a professional conference next week.
i realized today that the section i'm presenting in at SEGSA is basically a glorified science fair for almost-grown-ups, but fuck them, i'm the boss of the science fair. i win that shit. i will have my day -- two of them, actually.
so here's what i spent 8 hours on today and yesterday:
it's a lovingly crafted, nearly accurate depiction of my thesis study area. the cores are deep (200-600 ft) groundwater wells that NCDENR cared enough about to preserve and box up, but not enough to actually keep tabs on, so about 60% of the cores they took are missing now, stolen by rednecks or badgers or lost to who-knows-what, so there's a few thousand tax dollars down the drain. i'm not complaining -- too much -- because even with the 40% we could recover I was in over my head with this project. i'm about halfway done now, and i'm presenting my so-far conclusions at the southeast GSA conference next week.
i should probably be horrified, but right now, i'm just relieved to have the presentation prep be done tomorrow. the last three weeks are a haze of long workdays and little sleep. i've been edging up on spending more time on campus than i do at home. i definitely spend more time there than i do sleeping. nobody else that i know works as hard as i have this month.
this is why i win.
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