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All-knowing flist! You are...all-knowing, yes.
I have an annoying conflict of interests and only 4 hours to come to a decision. Quite a few weeks ago a bunch of us (MScs, that is) signed up to go to London for this massive oceanology convention/exposition thing they have every two years or so. Supposedly it's a nice opportunity to see what's going on in your field, browse displays from various (potential?) employers, and of course get a free trip to London. They're providing the coach and our memberships to the convention were free as well, so the only cost would be food and whatever.
The only problem is that our huge crab energetics report is due on Monday. Yes, I know this is Wednesday, but bear with me. I'm still not finished with the stats for it, nor with the energy budget. Yesterday and today I was in the computer lab all day and into the late evening trying to wrestle with the data, which is evil and requires so much tweaking and calculating before you can even run the analyses themselves it's not even funny. What I have left to do (ammonia, some SDA, and the energy budget) shouldn't take too long (*crosses fingers*), and I'd probably finish on Friday with Friday evening and the weekend to do the write-up, but still, I don't know if I can afford to lose an entire day. Nearly everyone else has dropped out of the trip already.
Part of me feels I should stay and work on the report, just to play it safe. But the other part of me really wants to go to London and actually see it for a longer period of time than just flying in and switching from the Tube to a train. The coach is leaving tonight at 2:30 in the bloody morning to ensure we get there in time for the conference around 9am or so and it's an all day thing. Evidently the usual SOP for this trip is to go, spend the morning looking around, then bugger off to play in the city for a while before coming back to the exposition in the afternoon. The plan is to be back in Bangor by 11pm tomorrow night, so I'd only miss the one day, and I did get the hardest of the stats done today...
I hate decisions like this. Half the people I talk to urge me to go b/c I might not get the chance again, and the other half say no, best not to miss the work time just in case and to plan a proper trip to London maybe in the summer (but although such a trip would be nice, it wouldn't be free). I was good earlier in the week and got the law essay finished ahead of time, so that's one less thing hanging over my head, but I always feel guilty when I put off work even though I know I'll get it done in the end. I suck.
GIP. B/c sometimes I feel like that little fish.
ETA: Whoops. That took care of that. Tried to take a nap beforehand b/c I was absolutely dead and ended up not getting up with the alarm. Oh well. I'll just be responsible and work tomorrow. Honestly, after going back to the site and reading the program for the convention and seeing the list of exhibitors, I noticed very, very few of them were academic institutions or aquarium type places. The bulk of participants seems to be engineering/technology or geo related, which explains why so many of the physical oceanography and geophysics people are going. Now I don't feel as bad for missing it, b/c no way am I going to get a job with a place like that.
I have an annoying conflict of interests and only 4 hours to come to a decision. Quite a few weeks ago a bunch of us (MScs, that is) signed up to go to London for this massive oceanology convention/exposition thing they have every two years or so. Supposedly it's a nice opportunity to see what's going on in your field, browse displays from various (potential?) employers, and of course get a free trip to London. They're providing the coach and our memberships to the convention were free as well, so the only cost would be food and whatever.
The only problem is that our huge crab energetics report is due on Monday. Yes, I know this is Wednesday, but bear with me. I'm still not finished with the stats for it, nor with the energy budget. Yesterday and today I was in the computer lab all day and into the late evening trying to wrestle with the data, which is evil and requires so much tweaking and calculating before you can even run the analyses themselves it's not even funny. What I have left to do (ammonia, some SDA, and the energy budget) shouldn't take too long (*crosses fingers*), and I'd probably finish on Friday with Friday evening and the weekend to do the write-up, but still, I don't know if I can afford to lose an entire day. Nearly everyone else has dropped out of the trip already.
Part of me feels I should stay and work on the report, just to play it safe. But the other part of me really wants to go to London and actually see it for a longer period of time than just flying in and switching from the Tube to a train. The coach is leaving tonight at 2:30 in the bloody morning to ensure we get there in time for the conference around 9am or so and it's an all day thing. Evidently the usual SOP for this trip is to go, spend the morning looking around, then bugger off to play in the city for a while before coming back to the exposition in the afternoon. The plan is to be back in Bangor by 11pm tomorrow night, so I'd only miss the one day, and I did get the hardest of the stats done today...
I hate decisions like this. Half the people I talk to urge me to go b/c I might not get the chance again, and the other half say no, best not to miss the work time just in case and to plan a proper trip to London maybe in the summer (but although such a trip would be nice, it wouldn't be free). I was good earlier in the week and got the law essay finished ahead of time, so that's one less thing hanging over my head, but I always feel guilty when I put off work even though I know I'll get it done in the end. I suck.
GIP. B/c sometimes I feel like that little fish.
ETA: Whoops. That took care of that. Tried to take a nap beforehand b/c I was absolutely dead and ended up not getting up with the alarm. Oh well. I'll just be responsible and work tomorrow. Honestly, after going back to the site and reading the program for the convention and seeing the list of exhibitors, I noticed very, very few of them were academic institutions or aquarium type places. The bulk of participants seems to be engineering/technology or geo related, which explains why so many of the physical oceanography and geophysics people are going. Now I don't feel as bad for missing it, b/c no way am I going to get a job with a place like that.