Is neither too long nor too short. It went by in a flash really, those 3 weeks of workcation. The first 6 days were honestly more work than anything else. With the proposal writing\u2026 It was basically writing through the night or till the wee hours of the morning, then sleeping a bit, going to the conference\u2026 Rinse and repeat. We barely stepped out of the hotel room in San Diego really, because it was just writing and writing and writing. And dinner would be Uber eats\u2026 And the leftovers I would have for supper and throughout the night as I\u2019m writing. It\u2019s been too long since I did any sort of academic writing\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typing on my new (ok, about a month old) iPad keyboard now\u2026 And I didn\u2019t hear anything about a new one being announced yet so I guess I\u2019m good. Probably next year says the rumor mills? By then I would have enjoyed this for a while. It is nice though, the key travel in this keyboard. But yeah no it IS heavy though! No matter what the weight still sucks. Especially if I also bring my work laptop back, as I did yesterday just in case\u2026 Also because I forgot that I did find an app alternative to mendeley\u2026 So I don\u2019t actually need my work laptop to read journal papers. Oh wells. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll touch my work laptop at all this weekend. But that\u2019s alright\u2026 I took off on Monday, my birthday! Yay! Pack my table a bit, get some art going maybe? Oh yes, all my new neon watercolors have arrived. By last Sat in fact. Awesome. And my empty watercolor pans are supposed to be delivered today. I really can\u2019t wait. Hope it\u2019s sooner rather than later really\u2026 I want to make my Holbein pans and stuff and I\u2019m so excited for that stuff to arrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m sort of used to the trackpad just existing on this keyboard now. Not like really use it *that* much\u2026 But I also learned some of the gestures and what not\u2026 But yeah overall\u2026 I guess I\u2019ll indeed be going magic trackpad in the future\u2026 Heavy weight be damned lol. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall thoughts on the trip\u2026 Well\u2026 We more or less finished writing the proposal by the end of the San Diego trip\u2026 So we could mostly just have fun in Europe. 3 hours flight delay on the flight from LA to Paris though so that sucked. That flight by KLM sucked. It was so fucking hot and stuffy. The first flight from SG to San Francisco sucked too. I was freezing on the flight – it was sooooo bloody cold, and my jacket was too thin. And it was long\u2026 over 15 hours\u2026 My butt hurt from sitting down for so long, even though I made regular trips to the toilet to get some blood circulation going and all\u2026 But well, no matter what the flights were just a one day thing. It sucked in the moment but you just grind your teeth and bear with it for a few hours and it\u2019s a done deal. The flight back from AMS was a lot shorter than – well about 12 hours\u2026 And it wasn\u2019t overly cold or hot. Ok a little on the warm side, and I was sitting next to a fairly large guy\u2026. But it was ok overall. I was starving at one point and they took forever to start serving snacks, but overall it was quite ok. My knees did feel like they swelled up a lot though\u2026 Again from the inactivity I guess\u2026 And carrying my luggages from Paris to Brussels and then Amsterdam\u2026 Yeah my knee did give way once when carrying my luggage down from the train. It\u2019s not even that heavy, my stuff this time. 34kg in two check in luggages. And then a probably 10 ish kg bagpack. That\u2019s way lesser than what I had when I came back from Japan. But I\u2019m also older, heavier, and less fit so\u2026 Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I definitely spent way too much on this trip. Ahhh which reminds me I need to sort out all the $$$ claiming for all the work expenses. Mostly the conference registration fee and hotels. And also some food, transport, and the poster printing. Yeah. Food in Europe was good, mostly. But expensive. And also a lot. I mean, when you\u2019re greedy and order a started and a main and a beer\u2026 Yeah that\u2019s a lot of food\u2026 And I bought back lots of chocolates and cheese\u2026 And of course a bunch of art supplies too. Haven\u2019t actually dug into those art supplies yet\u2026 Yeah. That\u2019s what I gotta do this weekend.. Maybe I\u2019ll read two papers and then do some art or something\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking of which, I slept till 11:30am this morning lol! It\u2019s a Friday and I decided to work from home\u2026 I woke up during the night at like 4ish, took really long to get back to sleep, woke up at 7am\u2026 And then the next time I knew it, it was 11:30am! I was NOT intending to wake up so late for sure. But the trip has been really exhausting and even though it\u2019s a whole week since I\u2019m back, there\u2019s probably still some jet lag and what not\u2026 Also. Fever. Not sure why but I got a fever on Sunday evening. Took some panadol and it went down the next morning. Monday was back to work day and I felt alright. But on Tuesday evening I was feverish again\u2026 Slight fever both times. And that slight fever lasted till Wednesday morning\u2026 But I had stuff to finish up at work so I went to work anyway\u2026 Felt a bit tired and a little off in the morning but not that much\u2026 And I was feeling quite ok in the afternoon, but still felt a bit feverish. Yesterday (Thurs) I felt ok. Until when I woke up at like 3 or 4am during the night and I felt feverish, but temp was just 36.5 ish and normal for me so\u2026 Yeah. Not sure what\u2019s happening. Dengue? I did get pangs of pain in my knee on Sunday. But that could be just my knees being bad from the trip\/flight. And my knees hurt quite a bit too, like aches and stuff. Then on Wednesday my right wrist\/forearm hurt so much, I took out my tape to tape it up. But again, that could just be from carrying all that stuff on the trip. Just a delayed reaction\u2026 No headaches or anything else so\u2026 I\u2019m just putting it down to being tired from the trip and that\u2019s why I stayed home today\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pelikan hub tmr! I\u2019m looking forward to it lots! Yeah our hub master swapped the date to tmr to get a cheaper venue. Saturday works for me too so that\u2019s great. Just read the email from Olivia (our hub master) earlier and that got me so excited. Looking forward to it! Alright. I guess that\u2019s all for now. We might be hearing back from the editors tmr morning and I hope it\u2019s good news\u2026 :X After all, coming back from the trip I\u2019ve been working yet on more figure edits, but for the patent filing this time. I really want this to be over asap so that we can move on and do other stuff. More stuff. Yeah\u2026 And I want a break\u2026 I want to sleep\u2026 I want to just slack at home for a week\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to play with all my art supplies basically\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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