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Tuesday, 15 May 2007

I'm surviving

Been at my postdoc now 10 months, time really flies. Had my second mentor meeting yesterday and things seem to be going just fine. Everyone seems happy with what I'm doing. I'm getting to go to the Primate Center in Southborough for the entire summer June-August, just coming to MIT on Fridays for the research meeting and maybe touching base with one of the summer vet students if they decide to take on my ferret project. I also need to take molecular biology this summer which meets from 6-9p on MW plus I assume labs are in addition. It'll be a very busy summer. So that means since I'll be at the Primate Center all day, and dealing w/ class at night w/ studying for exams and homeworks and labs, I'm not sure when I can find time to still prepare my lectures for the seminar series that will continue without me, I just need to show up on the days I present. Plus with one of our pathologists leaving recently who I was working on the ferret project w/, he was supposed to give a seminar at a research meeting going over all the cases and history etc., but he never did and now it's my job to come up w/ a presentation for that. And there's some other work that I want to get done regarding the ferrets that I won't have time to do since I won't be here that might turn into a summer project for one of the vet students so I'll have to be around in some way for that person. Plus I have to come up w/ a presentation for the talk I'm giving at AALAS in October but I need to work on it now because I'll be in France the last 2 weeks of September, lucky me! I've never left N. America, so I'll need to have it presented to my group and edited per their suggestions and presented again all before I go and all this needs to get done while I'm away at the Primate Center all summer, plus continue all the experiments I'm supposed to be doing to at least get this one paper out on my NTEC E. coli. So much to do, how can I get it all done? I guess I'll really need to work weekends when I'm available and maybe nights, not sure.

Posted: May 15, 2007 12:14

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