Is a Day Off Okay?

Just got back from my Georgia trip yesterday afternoon. I'm in a full-blown cold now--coughing, congestion, chills, joint aches. Taking over the counter crap for it. I added up my hours for this seven-day trip; 68 hours including air travel; 55 hours without. I'm pretty wiped out.


The trees are changing colors, and today was a thunderstormy/rainy grey day. I'd actually find quite pretty, if I were in the right state of mind. However, it is a reminder to me of the approach of fall and encroaching deadlines.

No thesis work got done on this trip. Not only am I behind on that, but there's follow-up work from this trip, as well as more work in the project-that-is-not-my-thesis. I have eight days on the ground, then off to Boston for a meeting.

I'm getting worried about whether it is realistic to finish by the December 15th deadline, and playing out the resulting disaster scenarios. I need to leave Canada by the end of January 2007; I can continue to write from Boston or wherever I end up. I think I'll need to pay tuition (at least part time) for another semester, and probably some more extension paperwork. I'm really not looking forward to this.

I took today mostly easy--woke up late, got some work done, took a walk down to the bakery. I think I'll take a day off on Saturday. Off to lab, now.