Slumpage, Recoverage, Moving-On-age (Yes, It Happens)
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It’s been a tough week-and-a-bit. Not wasted, as Beau convinced me in our DSA chat last week, because these experiences are all a part of the “normal emotional cycle in a very challenging work environment” (in quotes since I couldn’t possibly have said it better myself), but a hiatus in the substantial forward progress I’d been making over the past few months nonetheless. In any case, I’ve finally—finally!—trumpets, sunbeams, angel chorus—sent off my annual report to PlanktonTech, the presentation for their April meeting, and my ceci-n’est-pas-un-review of Dave’s diatom diversity manuscript. The relief of finally having that stuff off my desk, even if it’s a little late getting out, is palpable.
