Christmas in the Lab

I'm working all afternoon in the lab so that my students can have holiday time with their families. I am shoring up my "good advisor" karma, since my advisor had thought nothing of having me work through holidays. I used to call him from the lab to wish him a happy one :-} Christmas is not my holiday, so it is not so bad, although it is hard to shake the hard feelings around everyone else being off and having fun while I have chosen to work. The lab work is being highly successful and that is comforting. Maybe I'll even clean my desk today and call it productive!

I have been feeling down and blah this week, even after I had recovered from being sick. I realized that I had been eating a lot of holiday cookies and candies and have been having sugar crash. Sugar rush and crash had never strongly affected me before, but I suppose I should chalk this up to having turned 40. I've reduced my sugar intake today and I feel much better (despite being here in the lab), so I think there's something to it. When I'm done work I will have a traditional (for Jews anyway) Chinese food dinner with my parents and I have resolved to resist all attempts to ply me with dessert.