Week in the life of a grad student

The past week has been super crazy for me! Most of it good, but all of it crazy. And pretty much everything has been about work!

Here's a list of the few things that have happened:

• Gave a seminar (1hr) on a really awesome portion of my fieldwork from Costa Rica this past January
• Spent 1.5 hours helping a labmate go over a research talk for her conference
• Spent 3 hours and then another 2 hours helping a different labmate edit her dissertation defense
• Was appreciated at a grad student lunch
• Worked with undergrad in lab (and she managed not to kill the fish with ice cold water this time)
• Spent 12 hours at a local research conference (which literally drives grad students to drink)
• Gave talk (15min) on fieldwork from last year's Jamaica trip
• Watched 2 dissertation defenses by students in other research labs in my department
• Taught my own classes as well as classes of labmate
• Graded over 100 lab assignments
• Finished and submitted Costa Rica field research paper to very good journal (1st paper submitted in 2008!)
• Finished and submitted Jamaica field research paper to another very good journal (2nd submitted paper this year!)
• Watched my labmate's dissertation defense
• "Celebrated" labmate's dissertation defense completion (by drinking with remaining labmates)

All that, plus normal life stuff, means that I am now exhausted. Perhaps I will catch up with sleep (and laundry) this weekend ...