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Dream a little
Conference is wrapped up! We received much praise! And I got to go back to Cafe Matisse for a celebratory dinner last night! Details (and menu) to follow!
I still have to write and lay out a ton of pages this weekend, but at least the stress of the conference is over. Now I can get out there and find the real killer!
Your Virtual Memoirist, dear reader, is nuts.
I still have 3 articles to write in the next 3 days, before spending 2 days helping to run our annual conference. I may or may not have to put together a panel discussion the morning it begins. I have to write my brilliantly witty and engaging From the Editor column. Most mornings, I’m up before 5am, racked with anxiety. Laundry is piling up in my bedroom. My fridge is almost completely empty. I haven’t gotten on the treadmill in almost 2 weeks.
But I have been keeping up with my schedule of reading at least 30 pages of Don Quixote every day.
And now I’m done, so I guess I can get back to biomarkers, PAT, pharma facility design & construction, administrative chores, household care, and planning a wedding in a deserted city.
Work’s still pretty stressful, but it’ll all be over at noon next Friday. We’re heading down to the eastern shore in Maryland for a friend’s wedding soon.
I leave you with the Worthless Baseball Card Collection.
Just clicked over from the Yankees to the news and am watching JetBlue 292 try to emergency-land in LAX with faulty landing equipment. If you’re the praying kind, then pray for the passengers and crew.
Update: WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I thought about going to the Giants-Saints game tonight, since there were tons of tickets available and it would’ve been a way to support the Red Cross efforts down in the gulf.
But then I thought about how, within 5 minutes, I would’ve been rooting for the Giants to crush the Saints, and THAT didn’t feel right. So I’m watching at home, and the Saints fumbled the kickoff, leading to a near-instant TD for the Jints. Sorry, guys.
Well, the MacArthur Grant guys just e-mailed out the list of this year’s “genius grant” recipients: 25 people each get $500,000 over 5 years, plus health coverage. The foundation called me last month to see if I’d be willing to comment in case they were checking on anyone in my professional field (pharma/biopharma stuff), but they never called for any followups.
The list is embargoed till midnight, and I’m going to respect that, geniusly enough. Unfortunately, no one I know personally got tabbed, but a friend-of-a-friend did, so I’m hoping we can cadge some free drinks & dinner off the guy.
