Fractured Thoughts

So here I am at work, just finished the last of my to do list and passed it on to my supervisor to read, so she says 'just have a break for a few minutes whilst I read this and I'll get back with any comments'. So here I am probably won't get to read through all the entries I'm behind on but I can make a start :0).

We've been moving our lab and office (again) at work, so I've spent  pretty  much all week  putting everything into large blue boxes and dismantling  equipment. All this manual  labour  has left  me absolutely exhausted. Needless  to  say  this means that no actual work has been going on all week, and most of next week will be chaos as well as we unpack everything  *sigh*. On the plus side we will have nice newly refurbished labs to work in on the minus side half the equipment will get broken in the move and take forever to fix.

I told my supervisor I would have a draft of our journal publication completed for Monday, but with the moving I've hardly done any of it. So I should really spend all weekend doing something I would otherwise have spent all week doing (that's going to be fun). To make my week complete took my hard bound thesis copies to the graduate office for final submission and I've got the wrong year on them because I misread the instructions (Insert copious amounts of swearing and cursing at self here) so now I have to get the whole thing reprinted and rebound.

OK I have finished my whinge now. I have the next chapter of Zero X written in my head so am going to try to commit it to computer screen (I can't say paper) this weekend, and something for GW500 too if I have time. Read- am procrastinating from the work I ought to be doing. My Mum sent me this forward the other day which just made me laugh so I thought I'd share it and thus perpetuate the spam:

I passed my viva the other day, nice to know the last 4 years of my life weren't a complete waste of time. So now I just have to write a few corrections  for my thesis and then I can call myself doctor. Most of the corrections are already done they were annoying things like spelling mistakes and and putting spaces between numbers and units, (because of course that is the most important part of my work, ha). 

It is I suppose the end of an era though  as  I am still working for the same lab group not a lot will change, (except the letters after my name I suppose) but after spending the last 23 years in education of some description I am finished as a student. Just for the record I am never doing that again. I'm hoping if I ever suggest doing another degree someone will bash some sense into me.