Definitely Final Four-bound!

I'm so pumped for Indy this weekend!!! But I have an alarming amount of work that needs to get finished before I leave, like finishing the poster for the Kewaunee presentations on April 8 (and for SFB in 4 weeks), leading a bunch of labs/office hours for the class I'm TAing, and working on encapsulation stuff. Amazingly, one of the gurus in the self-healing field emailed me back in response to my questions! She was the corresponding author on a paper I was interested in learning more about so I asked her if she could direct me to someone (ie a grad student) who would be able to field (put up with) my questions, and instead she told me she would be happy to answer them! This is pretty amazing, as her work is mentioned in every single paper on self-healing. :-D

I still can't believe I'm going to the Final Four! It's amazing -- I'm going to see someone win the title (fingers crossed for Duke!!) and whenever I think about it I want to jump up and down with excitement! Man, I hope I can keep myself under control until we leave on Friday! I think I can also attribute this increased level in excitement to running more. I have finally gotten back into somewhat of a routine, steadily running 2 miles then walking at a steep incline for the third. I always feel like I have more energy when I've been running and it makes me feel better about myself. I guess I could say I'm working for the summer 2010 beach body, but seeing as how I rarely go swimming that's not really true. But whatever.

Okay: review lab manual, finish HW for TAing so I can answer questions in office hours, hold 3 labs, meet with Leslie (undergrad working with me), hold office hours (by the end it's 5), work on poster, go home, go running, shower, make dinner, clean house, watch House, work on poster. Go to bed. AHHH!