It's been a week!

I got some good work done on my grant this week; enough so that I can start sending some pages out for internal review. I was on a roll last night, so I stayed at work until 8:00pm being interrupted every 5-10 min by med students frantically preparing for their exams today. I kept handing them refs to copy and that worked well. One of our manuscripts was accepted for publication (after several years of effort) and that felt good. I'm preparing for administering the grad student Prelim exams next week and talking several students off the ledge. Whew, they do keep me busy at work. I have one grant due Feb 1st and the next due Feb 16th. I will be very pleased when they are sent off (and even more pleased if they get funded!). I got great reviews for my Med Neuro course! So it's been extremely busy, but basically going well. More work on the grant is planned for the weekend...

Neighborhood in Flux

I just spoke with my neighbors who live in the twin next door (on the side of my twin neighbors) and they told me that both they and their twin neighbor are selling their houses. They had spent the last year remodeling, but then their circumstances changed and they have decided to move. They are asking $90,000 above what I paid for my house and they will probably get it. The other neighbor is a nice older woman who has health problems and so must relocate to a place where she can receive some assistance. So I feel very fortunate to have bought my house 2 years ago, just as the neighborhood had started to turn over. Both my twin neighbor and my across the alley twin neighbor are new owners, too. So hopefully, nice people with move in to the neighbor's homes and the transitions with go smoothly.