A day off!

So yesterday was my first day off since the beginning of Dec.  Now I didn't work all day every day for that couple of months...there were some days where I just came in to feed my fish and walked back out the door.  The last week was like hell.  I had a 2-day workshop, was training someone on helping dissect fish, field work, ended my experiment, euthanized fish and revised my first manuscript!  So my first paper on my Master's research will be published in the Journal of Parasitology.  It feels great to have that done.  One more to go from my Master's work...

Ahhh, but yesterday was fabulous.  I didn't do much of anything.  Slept in (until Wayne came knocking on the door for his mail, damn him!), then watched a movie in bed, took a nap, did some gardening and watched some tv.  All in all it was the best day I've had in a very long time.  If the wind hadn't been so horrendous, I would have also headed to the beach, but getting hit by sand hurts.  Oh, and yesterday was my quitting-smoking anniversary...6 YEARS!!  I can hardly believe it!  And in the last couple of months I've had more cravings than I've had in the last couple of years!  It must be the stress.  

I'm off to go pack for a week-long field course that I'm helping out with and we leave tomorrow.  We head to a camp in the Catlins, an area of native forest and beautiful rugged coastline with great beaches.  Too bad the forecast isn't great so those beaches won't be as enjoyed as they could be.  4 professors, 3 demonstrators (same thing as a teaching assistant...that's what I'll be doing), 2 cooks and 30 students.  They have lectures for a day and a half and then have to do their own projects...so basically I help them with equipment and experimental design and critical thinking...I'm so looking forward to it!