My major prof is running the boys and I ragged this week. We are trying to find stopping points in our research projects and prep for the Big Conference that we are attending next week. Saturday, we will be driving, together, in a minivan, the 10 hours to Conference Town. We will be there for the entire week. I am excited about it (the actual conference, not the drive) because I will not be presenting any information, I get to just sit and absorb as much information as I can. This conference is our biggest of the year and explicitly covers our research area. As Conference Town boasts a population of 12,000 people, I have no idea what kind of internet access will be available.

Yesterday I found out that I will not be attending a conference in December that I desperately want to attend. The abstracts are due this week and I don’t have any reasonable data yet. My project isn’t working. It isn’t my fault, theoretically it should work, but in practice it doesn’t. By December I should have quite a bit of data but my major prof doesn’t want to take the chance. I understand his thoughts on this but it doesn’t make it any easier to swallow the fact that I will be left behind while the boys will most likely get to attend.

Okay, back to work…