Where to begin?

Research has been keeping me overwhelmingly busy. I've been quite stressed about it as someone is waiting for me to be ready so she can train me on developing my microsatellite library. I haven't been ready cause we thought I might be dealing with 2 species...which might still be the case but we can't say for certain...regardless I had to go collect more fish on Saturday and start dissecting them for the trematodes so I can try to collect one kind out of the two genetic lines to redo my DNA extraction for the library. Now I find out that Tania isn't waiting on me so I can stop being so damn stressed about it and maybe take a wee bit of time off. So I'm thinking I might take this afternoon off...I'm participating in my friend's son's school geography project. He sent me a paper doll, Flat Stanley, who is vacationing with me and I'm "showing" Flat Stanley around and taking pictures and what not. I might take him out to the peninsula today (if its nice out and I can get out of working) so I can get photos printed and send him back. I'll put a photo album up in a couple of days. I had my first basketball game ever last week...we won but I didn't score any points and since everybody else has played before I am by far the worse player on the team...oh, well, it was fun. Other than that, I've still been feeling a bit homesick...it takes so much effort to make new friends and since I've been working so damn hard I just haven't had the energy. It's doesn't help that Shannon and I got into an argument this weekend, which is still unresolved...arguing through texting is not good.