Tuesday, October 14, 2008

100%

I'm finished! The Crummy Tedious Boring Dirty Samples are done! Go ahead, check the counter.

I left the lab yesterday with just four samples remaining, so I was pretty confident I would finish them today. I didn't have to carpool, so I stopped on my to work this morning and bought two large bags of mini Twix candy bars. I got some semi-unexpected help with the samples today, making it possible for me to finish by 5:00 pm! I went around offering everyone a Twix since most of them had helped me with the samples over the past three years or at the very least, they had listened to me complain about them. I left the rest of the candy in our shared food spot with a note saying "[Name] finished her [samples]!! Everyone gets a Twix!"

Blogging about this work really helped motivate me to finish it these last few months. It's a pity I don't have something else now that would lend well to a new blog progress counter. I do plan to do InaDWriMo, however, if Dr. Brazen Hussy organizes it again.

17 comments:

Dr. Brazen Hussy said...

Oh dear. Is that a request? and by the way, OMG has it been a year already???

Congrats on the samples!

EcoGeoFemme said...

Yes, it's a request. pleeeeaaase?

Anonymous said...

Good work! Worth a twix or two.

yes, another writing month would be fab.

Dr. Brazen Hussy said...

Hmmmmm. I shall take your requests under advisement.

Silver Fox said...

Woo hoooo! I think you should leave the 100% completed bar up for a while in celebration.

Anonymous said...

Woohoo 100% and Twix!

Amanda said...

Yay! Congratulations!

And the writing month would be excellent. I've got plenty of reading/writing stuff to do.

Jennie said...

Congrats on the samples!!
I concur that a writing month is needed. I'll be working part time so I'll need help keeping up with the two manuscripts and the possible post doc application I need to finish in November. Then maybe I'll take some time to work on submitting my other chapters. In fact I need to start my writing month now!

JaneB said...

Congratulations!!! Achievement AND chocolate!

A writing month would be really good, pretty please...

Anonymous said...

YAY! Congrats. Eat as many Twix as you want.

ScientistMother said...

woohoo! yeah to you.

ScienceGirl said...

Good job! Isn't it a great feeling?

Dr.Brazen Hussy: I am joining the InaDWriMo requests. Pretty please?

Cath@VWXYNot? said...

w00t!

Can a website count towards the writing challenge? It is for work...

Albatross said...

Congrats!
How nice of you to share your reward!

EcoGeoFemme said...

Thanks All! I will definitely leave the counter up for a while.

Brazen Hussy, I think there might be a restless mob here, demanding another InaDWriMo. Maybe your job apps could count?

Dr. Brazen Hussy said...

The restless mob is starting to scare me. I'll see what I can do to quell them. :)

Wayfarer Scientista said...

Yay!! Congrads!