Ahhh the joy of science

So met with the bossman today and went through the changes that LJS wanted.  Some it was good, some was well that's just a preference and other stuff it was just nope we're leaving it our way.  Only a few overall changes to make really.  I'm very lucky with that.  EVS wants to run through it another time and then I can finally get it submitted to the grad school.  Chandra already beat me to it so I'm super jealous :)  Still some squid experiments that I need to plate.  Only plated one today but hopefully plates will be dry enough to get the other plated tomorrow.  Keeping fingers and toes crossed in hopes that this will be the last squid experiment that I need to do.  EVS found another protocol to analyze peptidoglycan, capillary electrophoresis, so he is wanting me to try that out.  I'm worried that I will be pressed for time to get it done (we're hoping to leave after we close on the house on Aug 5th) but maybe I can really push it.  No one I've talked to so far has done it before so I'm going a little blind into this endeavor.  EVS really wants more consistent data before we submit this final paper and I really really really want to get this paper out since I'm not sure if my post-doc will deliver on the paper front.  The whole doing a sorta industry post-doc means chances of papers are slim.  

On the home front, stuff is moving out.  It was really sad to see the sofa and chair that I bought to move to Athens be sold.  I didn't think I was attached to them but apparently I was.  We moved the futon out to the living room so we have somewhere to sit but tonight after the bedroom furniture is gone it is going to be really weird.  We already have cardboxes as nightstands so not having any other furniture is just going to add to the weirdness.  I'm still pretty cranky at people that tell me they are going to buy something and then email back saying they aren't.  I mean it is just frustrating.  I'm learning a lot about being a saleswoman I guess.  

The looking for a place to live thing is going pretty well.  One place that I found seems great.  The sublease ends Dec 1st which is right after we are supposed to be heading to California so no extra money spent on the whole "you must have a 6 month lease."  The weird thing is the renters are having new carpet installed in the 1st floor.  Now it could be that the management got a great deal and is putting it in.  Or it could be the renters killed somebody and had to have it replaced :)  I really hope it is the first one.  We are going to have Joe, a friend of John's from college or Tasha/Matt look at them for us because we have no idea what we are getting ourselves into at this point.  It would be great if we could do a little looking around but too much to do here and too little money to just fly out there and look around for a 4 month lease.  I'm just hoping for no bugs and little danger.

I'm worried about the traveling as well.  I mean how many times can you play I Spy with my little eye when you are traveling through the desert of New Mexico and Arizona.  I'm thinking this car trip will be a growing experience for John and me.  We've spent very few days apart since we started dating and fewer apart since we got married but there was always time "away" from each other either at work or even at home we had at least a distance between us.  So being less than 2 feet from each other will definitely different :)

By the way, aren't I supposed to be feeling more relaxed now that the defense is over?  My skin is overly dry, my stomach is still nervous and some days it feels like my heart is going to jump out of my chest all signs that I am still stressed.  So now is it going to be the move to Texas will finally calm me down or once we get to California or am I just going to stay stressed forever?