YAY!

I'm one week in and loving graduate school (again)!

Here's what I did this week:

Tuesday
-met with an Office of Nursing Research staffer to talk about my next grant (I have two right now) due October 15th;
-nursing school PhD orientation from 10am until 5:30pm
-Doctoral Student Organization meet-up with food stuff and gelato until 7pm
-came home and read/researched for next grant

Wednesday
-found my 'cubicle', and continued to read/research for grant
-got my first cup of free coffee at the UPenn grad student center (bring your own mug)
-child and family nursing class (really, super advanced growth and development?) from 1pm-4pm
-research center dinner/party/pictures from 4pm-7pm
-bicycled home and listened to a spoke on the back wheel snap as I was unlocking our door
-came home and read/researched for next grant

Thursday
-went in to my cubicle early to read/research for next grant
-meeting with people reviewing the PhD program from 12:15-1:30pm
-2pm-4pm met with my advisor about the grant application, upcoming interviews with survivors of pediatric brain tumors, and finished preparing an abstract on which I'll give a presentation next March in Rhode Island at the Eastern Nursing Research Society's meeting (on interviewer safety regarding suicide possibility in pediatric brain tumor survivors during in-home interviews)
-had inspection of the condo that our offer was accepted on from 4:30-5:30, which went well
-dinner with real estate agents from 5:30-8pm
-came home and read/researched for next grant

Friday
-woke up to torrential rain and decided not to go to the bike shop
-walked through the rain and 30mph winds to my cubicle, where I read/researched for my next grant
-got free coffee
-read/researched
-free coffee
-read/researched
-came home and read/researched for next grant

Saturday
-woke up and read/researched for next grant
-went to see a lawyer about how to approach our slumlords
-went to bike shop and got a new spoke and fixed the bicycle
-read/researched for next grant
-went on a long run while listening to The Hazards of Love (still a very good album)
-read/researched for next grant
-packed a few boxes
-read/researched for next grant
-read a few articles for class on Monday
-now writing this blog post....

...and here we go into the future!