Three days and counting...can I make it?

So I have to try to get a rough draft done by Friday...shit. Over the last three days, I've written 27 pages, gotten some pretty good stuff between 1641 and 1649, and some okay stuff for between 1649 and 1660. I have almost all of my English primary source material to add, and I'm realizing that I probably should have more Irish primary sources...especially between 1649 and 1688...

Basically, tomorrow=writing on Ireland 1660-1691 historically speaking and trying to analyze some of the events that happened, why it's 1691 when we really see a unified Irish people and not 1660. I'll try to drag in some more Irish poetry too. My best guess is that I'll have between 10-20 more pages tomorrow...hoffentlich.

The unfortunate thing is that I have a Greek quiz tomorrow too, as well as a MASSIVE amount of staining and running flow on some cells. I've kind of neglected my work for the last couple of weeks, and I think it's high time to get back on the experimentation boat and finish as much as I can in the next 8 weeks before I leave for Ireland (angelic choirs sing). Seriously people, I'm going to IRELAND. Jan 21. Mark it.

Anyways, I have two cell lines that I'm finishing with my notorious four chemos today and tomorrow, leaving me with just TWO cell lines on my four chemos. Then I'll have 80/140 tests done. Sounds like not that much, huh? I have five lines thawed right now, and I'm going to go ahead and do all of those five with my next two drugs, assuming that I can find one of them that was supposedly ordered, but may not have been. I dunno, I've looked all over the lab, and I can't find the goddamn drug. Whatever. I need to be done with these experiments ASAP though. My goal is to be done with 120 tx out of 140 by the time Jan 21 comes around, but my guess is that I'll be closer to 100.

A lot of that will be dependent on how far thesis gets done in the next two weeks. Next week is REALLY going to suck, because I have my HoM paper on Avicenna due (still haven't started it....) and my little kid's book in Greek. Plus, there's a notorious German exam on Tuesday. Basically, if I have any free time Thursday, I'm going to write my sentences and try to come up with some ideas for a kid's book...somehow?

If I can get two of these huge projects out of the way by Saturday, I'll be immensely relieved. If I can get it all done by next Tuesday (doubtful...) then I may explode with happiness.

I ordered two Irish Gaelic books online. The one that I have now assumes that you have some idea about pronunciation, of which I have very little, and also assumes a LOT of vocab knowledge. I know inis=island, go=to, aran=bread, agus=and, atharda=fatherland, and Eireannach=Irishman. I'm starting to get how to conjugate the verb "to be" also, but given my vocabulary knowledge thus far, I would be better off learning "to go". Then I could say something like "Go I (Verb comes first in Irish) go athardha agus inis (of) Eireannach agus aran. Something like that?

I'm so excited about Ireland--if you couldn't tell--that I'm kind of forgetting about Germany, which is in NINE days. Shit.

Thankfully, the dollar gained 1.5 cents on the Euro today. I know these changes seem small, but if I exchange $300 to Euro yesterday, I would have gotten 238 Euro. Tomorrow, it would be 240 Euro.

ugh, right now I hate work and wish I could focus on school. If I could, I would put off all of my classes except Greek, just finish Greek by the end of the week, and then be down to just 12 hours.