Grants and talks and papers

The last weeks have been busy but in a good way. My new car has been tested on two trips, on to New York and one to Sunday River (the ski area for which I have a season pass). It is still awesome. In between those activities there were several things at work that required a lot of attention. Despite all the economical turmoil the funding for my main project has been increased and we now have to apply for that money.

This is an open process and since we talk about lots of money many institutes around the country will compete with us. This means we have been working frantically to get all the preliminary data, all the right figures, etcetera. On top of that, I received a phone call from my boss last week if I wanted to the Cancer Meeting talk this week. Now, this meeting is a BIG meeting where every postdoc typically presents once during his postdoc period. I accepted, and as soon as the announcement was made many colleagues approached me to tell me that they saw that I was presenting (increasing my stress about this talk about tenfold). On Tuesday morning I did it, and it went pretty good. I presented the stuff that we describe in the manuscript that we have recently submitted (which is now finally being reviewed, by the way). Impressive to be there, but at the same time quite exciting that I have finally done that talk myself.
So I am looking at another weekend of working which is fine. Sometimes the tide is low and sometimes the tide is high. It won’t stop me from going out tonight and tomorrow