Every couple of hours or so I add a new meeting, or engagement of some type to my calendar for next week. It's just a constant reminder that soon I need to start being productive and working hard. Not that I haven't been working hard...but counting plants while sitting out in the sunshine, and marking papers in the dreary old lab are two very different things.
Since I have been out of the field for the past few days (and likely tomorrow too given the forecast) I have had some time to catch up reading some of my friend's blogs. And it really got me thinking. One of the main reasons I stayed at Queen's for my PhD was because I was comfortable here, and not ready to leave yet. I had a great supervisor, I am researching topics I find fascinating and access to amazing local field sites. So many of my friends from my Undergrad have moved onto other things in their lives. I have friends all over the world now including the US, Australia, England and soon to have one in China too! I could have never imagined myself moving somewhere out of the country, but as I lose more and more friends I start to consider that maybe someday I should (and need) to do that. And now I am getting excited about it. I think it would be such a good experience and given that I have never really gone ANYWHERE, I think it's necessary to experience before I settle down into a real life. I'll use these next three years to think about where I may like to go, and where some great post-doc spots may be, but I guess I need to focus on all that "pre-doc" stuff first.
I did do some data entry today- please, hold the applause, but I didn't make too big of a dent in it. I did however get a bunch of free crap at the annual sidewalk sale on Queen's campus, spend some time at KHS, catch up with my little sister and go to the gym, I hope that counts as productivity.
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