Overwhelmed at the moment

I’m a bit overwhelmed right now. I’m exhausted; I worked an overnight study on Friday night, slept a good portion of Saturday, had a nasty headache from the storm front that came through Philly, went grocery shopping, and then spent the evening hanging out with my darling boyfriend and another friend, watching Across the Universe. I think I finally got to bed around 1:30AM, after packing about half of my stuff for the conference I left for this morning.

I’m at the Society for Neuroscience Annual meeting, in Washington, DC, with the rest of my lab. It’s HUGE. There were 30,000 people at the convention center today, it’s mind-blowing how much is there. I spent most of the afternoon wandering around the vendor area and the poster presentations. I need to sit down with the book of stuff for tomorrow (there is a book for each day, literally a half inch thick book of what’s going on each day of the conference they gave me at checkin).

I know I’m a day or two behind on NanoBloPoMo, and I’m thousands of words behind on NanoWriMo. I’m not really terribly concerned; I am doing my best, but it’s a busy time right now for me. The main reason I’m doing these two things is to work on my writing, so I figure that needs to be ongoing and not just this month anyway. And I’m trying not to stress. So if I miss a day here or there, it’s not that big of a deal; I’m probably just swapped with work or recovering from work.