Ramblings...

I am a bit at a loss what to call this entry. So I will start writing and hope for illumination. This week has flown by. It was a short week I admit because I only came back from home Monday night. Though now I come to think about it, it also feels like a long, long time since getting back from home. This I think is the normal, everyday, dual speed of time experienced by students all over. Time flies past too quickly and deadlines loom closer and closer, but at the same time the last holiday and the next one seem eons away. In my case this is partly true. I have to wait till November till I'll have time to go home again. And by then I need to have most of my research finished otherwise I am in trouble big time. But in the meantime I am off to Italy for a workshop, Windermere for a short holiday with friends because I have never in the 3.5 years I have been living here been to the lake district, then to Switzerland for a conference where I have to give an oral presentation (OMG). My parents will come to visit me right after the ordeal and finally I go to Italy, first to meet my sister in Pisa, and then with my brother to Rome. With all this running about I am really wondering where I will find the time to do all this work I have to do. I really need to start working through weekends! If I cannot face the lab at weekends, because there is never anybody there, and right now I am battling the little demon of loneliness, then I need to start bringing some writing work to do at home. I have 1 or 2 chapters which I could start work on and having them done will take away a lot of pressure from later months!