haven't told much about my Nicaragua adventure the last weeks cuz it's an all round working game here.
Getting up at 6.30 AM, sometimes skipping breakfast to go on a lab or farm visit early in the morning. (before the sun burns too strong). Some days, working at the company = running, mailing, stalking people to give you the information you need. And then from time to time realizing that all the hours you've put into some file or document was all for nothing, just because you or they misunderstood.
Yes yes, thesis time gotta love it. But it feels damn good after being busy with something for so long ( not knowing at all if it's right what you do ) and then hearing your thesispromotors say that they think you're doing fine. I doubt if it will stay that way...
Anyways, I knew it wouldn't be a piece of cake and research goes with ups and downs, but I'm a bit stressed out at this point. And we all know how I get when I'm stressed.
Luckily my good old crazy granny and crazy friends are approachable for peptalk even at 2 AM int he morning (thank you Skype).
It's all about diplomacy here, trying to stay calm and friendly with so many people as you try to explain them as good as you can what it is you need. Not so easy if you're thesis research is about "exergy" and "life cycle assessment". Say whaaat?
Since I've got to deal with quite enough stuff lately to train my "I'm not gonna lose my cool" face(I thank the universe for that), I'm not behind bars for murder (yet).
So we keep going, I still believe that at some point it will all fall in it's place.
Last weekend I didn't even left my place just to continue to find some structure in the whole catastrophic mountain of data... But this weekend I'm out with our weekendtravelcrew wherever it is we're planning to go... Do I hear roadtrip, surfing and saving turttles in the same sentence?
Don't get me wrong I'm still happy that I'm here and not in rainy Belgium but it's just frustrating to be in such a beautiful country and only being able from time to time to do the things I really want to do. (surf surf surf and hike volcanoes, that too)
One more year of schoolmess dude and then I take a long break from seriousness.
Enough Einsteins in the world to save the planet.
And in the meantime,
a caipirinha a day keeps my nervous breakdowns away.
Cheers.
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