This week
Things I’ve done this past week:
~ Went to a fabulous concert by Sandra McCracken (who opened for Scott Miller, who was quite entertaining), surrounded by friends.
~ Trekked up to the mountains of Virginia for a lab group retreat – lots of games, movies, reading, drinking and laughing. Unfortunately, we didn’t get any snow this year (it’s snowed the last two years we’ve had this retreat), but we still managed to have plenty of fun. 
~ Breathed a biiiiiig sigh of relief.
~ Took a snow day at home, even though the roads turned out to be ok in the end.
~ Spent some quality time with my female classmates, hanging out and trading stories of crazy faculty and other students.
That’s pretty much how my week went – I’ve got a couple of superbowl parties to make an appearance at, and some work to do in the lab, plus getting ready for this year’s Midatlantic Microbial Pathogenesis Meeting which starts next Sunday in Wintergreen VA. I’m (thankfully, I think) not giving a talk after all (there were too many potential presenters from our dept), but I’ve spent the last couple days working on a poster, so we’ll see what critique Dan has when he looks at it over the weekend. I’m still working on Thirty-three Swoons which I’ll hopefully finish up this weekend, and then I’ve got another Jodi Picoult book that I’m looking forward to starting.
Have a great weekend everybody!
I saw what you wrote about Thirty-Three Swoons – that was how I felt, too. I couldn’t figure out what was going on, but the way it came together was so masterful. Plus, I was so sure that things were going to turn out one way, and then the book took a different turn entirely, which I enjoyed very much.