New Timeline

I was wishing for extra time and I guess I got it.

My boss mentioned today that I should be telling potential postdoc PIs that I'll be done by next fall. I still think I can be done by June if I continue to write as I run my final experiments, but I agree that it's better to be conservative. He said that it was fine that I plan to start contacting people now but that I don't really need to. Although I don't want to be one of those grad students scrambling for a postdoc right up to the last minute, I won't even hit the 6 month mark until December (or March!).

Either way, I think I can take a few days off and lighten up on myself. I'm feeling pretty burned out. Work's been really hectic this week. I'm in the until-recently unfathomable position of having more experimental tissue available than I can process before it goes bad. I'd hate to waste it when I was doing without for so long.

My projects are going well though. I just submitted a minor publication that my one boss has had in his inbox for the better part of a year. Even though it's small, it'll be my first "first author" pub, which is kinda exciting. I think I'll take the night off and let my focus for the next two days simplly be making the best use of the few hundred tomato seedlings sitting on my desk....