1:03:43. Up the Yeatman Trial ... snake sightings = 0 so I still have a few more days to run on the trails! I still feel weird. I am not really sick, but I am definitely not good either. I did sleep a little better last night, but I am stressed and just not functioning at 100% (which is not good, because I am super-duper busy here at work). Seriously, I just don't see how I am going to get everything done that I need to ... (caution: vent ahead) I am working on a huge grant, huge in terms of money (over a million/year) and huge in terms of impact for the University. Things are so bad with research grants right now that U of A has lost 3 of these big grants over the past 6 months (NIH is not funding as many grants and these other grants did not make the cut - one of them, that I was involved in, was because it was too expensive, the others are because they did not score high enough). If we lose this one too our Cancer Center (research-wise) is in big trouble - translating into bunches of people losing their jobs. Anyway -- this grant is due next month. I am in charge of the biostatistics core - we provide the statistical help for 4 projects (each project is as big as a usual grant), plus, I am also co-leader for one of the research projects. What does this mean? It means I am essentially working on 5 grants, at the same time as I am teaching a big service class (tougher to teach than when I am teaching graduate PhD statistics students) plus all my other duties (I am funded 40% on other research grants that all have some sort stupid timelines ;-) ). YIKES. Plus, I am supposed to be getting my dossier ready to go up for tenure by June. This means that I really really really need to get my own papers written, right now I have 2 papers that I am trying to finish ... but I just don't have time. My TA and RA (same grad student) is not doing her job, and so I might have to fire her ... anyway, whine whine whine. I know, if I weren't whining so much I would be getting more work done ... here I go. Happy running bloggers!
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