Though I did go to lab today, since I hadn't showed my face there yet this week, I left after less than an hour. There was a good reason, I promise. I didn't bring my computer today, since it seemed like it would rain. And with almost a week left before the deadline for the abstract of my presentation I figured I didn't really have to write on it today. Oh, the joy I felt when I came in to lab only to be told that my professor would very much like to read through it tomorrow. Seems I'll just have to pull out my mad bullshitting powers and slap something together. At least I have some pretty diagrams and pictures finished, so I should be able to make it seem a bit more substantial than it is. In any case, I left lab and came home to get started.
Today I also learned of two parties that I won't be able to go to. Why? Because I'm already going to a third one... which happens to be, at least partially, my own birthday party. Well, one of the other ones I might not have been able to go to anyway. The first I learned of was a reception following a lecture by some highly placed EU official, I found the invitation for it on my desk when I came in to lab. With a little post-it note from my professor saying "Urgent!", the deadline for registration was two days ago. The second party is a party of encouragement for the lab members taking entrance exams for master courses... or something like that.

And now, since it wouldn't be a proper post without it: weather.
The sun was shining as I left Kawauchi after lunch and biked to lab. I left lab in absolutely pouring rain with occasional thunder only to arrive home partially soaked (head kept dry by umbrella) but in perfectly fine and sunny weather.

Listening to: Bathyscaphe - Film Winder Knob
Feeling: Wet, bored and tired