Work/school (I'm never sure what to call it) has been busy, busy, busy. I feel like I haven't had time to breathe for the last few weeks. It all started when I decided to run for a "community representative" seat on the local school council for our neighborhood high school. Filling out forms, making copies of flyers, preparing for a meet & greet, researching the school, and generally being nervous took up way more time than I expected. (By the way, I found out last night that I didn't win, but I'm still really glad I ran. It was a cool experience.)
Then I had to go to a conference in Vancouver. (Had to. It was tough.) I was away for six days and really didn't have time to do much of any of my normal work - no reading for the class I'm taking, no paper grading, no forward movement on my research projects, etc. The sessions were awesome, the city was beautiful, and it was a great experience, but it did throw off my schedule a bit.
And finally, my advisor and I got word that we've been asked to revise & resubmit a paper we're trying to get published. If you don't know how that whole process works (I'm definitely still learning, three years into grad school), a revise & resubmit is really good news. It means you're probably going to get published, but you've got to do a bunch of revisions to get the paper ready to go. So that was an exciting little bundle of extra work that fell into my lap this week.
These are all wonderful things, but they've meant that I really haven't had like a true full day off in a couple of weeks. (Oh, okay fine, except for the one extra day we spent in Vancouver after the conference ended.) I'm typing away this Saturday, trying to get my feet underneath me before next week begins.
As a reward for listening to me whine and being so patient while my sisters and I have neglected this blog, here are some pretty pictures from the trip:
Sunset at Kitsilano Beach.
Me on a bike ride around Stanley Park.
More Stanley Park.
Vancouver.
View of bridge from Stanley Park.
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