In exchange for publishing a journal paper. That’s what my life has been pretty much the last half a year. As well as through Aug – say Nov last year. So really… Not much of a break at all…
And honestly, I don’t know if it’s really worth it. It’s been going on for way too long, and it’s been wayyy too much work. I swear, working 80 hour (or more) weeks is NOT normal for a research officer. You pretty much only hear that sort of numbers for doctors…? Not that it’s right for anyone to have to put in that sort of hours, regardless of pay… But I’m only making a tiny fraction of what those folks are earning. Maybe something in the realm of a quarter or a 1/5? It’s rapidly becoming a life exchange. Exchanging my physical and mental health for… Nothing. No freaking clue if it’s even worth anything at all.
Yeah.
Only in the past few weeks, after a lot of shit and health scares in the family… That I forced myself to slow down… On the weekends that is. Tried to do a bit of art besides catching up on my sleep. Yeah, there’s just too much shit to be done. I just could not avoid working till like 11 pm or 12 am on weekdays… The last two weeks were exceptionally bad, Like I’d be jumping into the lab at 11 pm to start imaging a sample… I’m exhausted. Physically and mentally.
Finally have a bit of a breather now as we wait for the editor to respond…
I haven’t been writing letters to pen pals in almost a year… But I did get back to journaling recently… Or what I call ‘scrapbooking’. Basically, printing photos on my Canon selphy photo printer and then sticking it on a notebook and writing some text to go with it.
Speaking of the photo printer… Geez… It gave me quite a scare as it just refused to recognise the ink cartridge and photo paper. Dug around the web for a bit, tried cleaning it out to no avail… In the end I almost dissembled the whole thing, till I could dissemble it no more, then put it back, and it miraculously works again. Has been working for a few weeks now (well I printed two other times besides the first) and so I take it as it being fixed now.
So what artsy stuff have I been up to? I did a few drawings… I didn’t take photos of everything I did… But some drawings, and also painted some miniatures… That was pretty fun.
Yeah that’s some of the stuff I’ve been up to… Got two of the miniverse make it mini food and guess what? They were IDENTICAL. Color and all. Geez. Talk about luck/dupes. It was also way less exciting than I thought it might be to put it togethers… Maybe if I’d gotten something else it would be more fun… But yeah… I gave the dupe to my sis and whenever I feel tempted to buy another, I think of how I’d gotten doubles and didn’t quite have much fun with it, and all that temptation would be gone. Yeah partly because I wasn’t quite in the mood for it maybe. And partly because I’d already known what to expect because I watched Nerdecrafter doing it… so the element of surprise wasn’t there… I think I’d have way more fun doing ‘freestyle’ resin crafts… I did make my first item with the sophie and toffee kits and that was pretty fun. Deciding on what color to put in and all, making a mess etc… Way messier but wat more fun than the make it miniverse kit so yup. Have yet to make another resin craft, sure would like to though!
Well that’s it for now I guess. It’s dinner time so see ya later!