Countdown: SEVEN!

Yes, just a week longer, and I'll be 'leaving on a jet plane' ... although I know exactly 'when I'll be back again'. That's the tragedy of it, and the comfort as well. The last few weeks have whizzed by. There's so much work, and so much more added on to it that isn't strictly mine, but My Advisor believes I'm at that stage of transition when a little extra non-research experience wouldn't hurt. So I'm working on a manuscript review (informally, of course), helping (bordering on supervision) with sometwo else's work, and ... and so far there was the patent application, which is finally at the doorstep of the USPTO as of today. Yayy! The bad news is, all the rest of the stuff needs to get done before I leave - and I haven't yet included my stack of 'real' work!

In other news, Fi is out of the country. Well, as a matter of fact, he is still within US airspace as I write this - I'll be right where he is next week at about this time, - but right now he's rapidly heading out to halfway across the world from me. (Hong Kong is twelve hours ahead of Boston.) He was offered a rather exciting ten-week project in China, carrying with it an opportunity to understand business practices within one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The good news is, there's a chance he will be able to come home to India while I'm there. The bad news: communication - always difficult long-distance, now more so. Well, time will fly, as it always does. And, if things slow down, I have that rather tricky 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle that's been waiting for me in bits on the floor of my bedroom.