House Update

I also realized that my last post was a frustrated one about house hunting. I keep meaning to follow-up with a post about the place I found, but I want to wait until I have pictures of everything all put together and finished. I have a couple of projects that I need to finish up before I can do that, so stay tuned!

Moods

This morning on the train (yes, I now take the train to work everyday, and am feeling very Mad Men about it) I was considering the fact that I would like to stay in bed today instead of coming to work. Next thought, "Jeesh, you used to be such an overachiever...what happened to you, sudden slacker?"

Then the train stopped, and I checked my email as I walked to my office.

Subject line: 2012 Young Investigator Grant.

Emotion: !!! (but uncertainty because I haven't read the body of the email yet).

I got the grant! I applied for this grant almost a year ago. I was supposed to hear back in March, but they kept delaying notification. But today, I found out that I got it! Not feeling so much like a slacker anymore! I've just been having these moments of "can I really pull this whole research career thing off the way I have been so far or am I going to burn out soon?" So moments like these are reassuring. Yes, I can pull this whole research career thing off. I can do this, and I love it.