Alchemy and Faith

When my boss is in town I almost never stay at work past 5:00 PM.  I get in late too, usually around 10:30 or 11:00.  He complains all the time about it, but I get stuff done so he’s never really too upset.  The weird thing is that when he goes out of town, I’ll stay at work until 8:00PM or later some nights and get in by 9:00.  It makes absolutely no sense, even to me.

The real point of this story is to say that I’m exhausted from working so much.  It may just be the way I’m wired, but even when I get home and have some down time I’m still thinking about work.  I think its just a consequence of science and graduate work that your life becomes so intertwined with your work.  You practically live with your office and group mates.  You eat lunch and talk about science with the same people everyday.  Then  when you go out you see everybody again.  I think I’m starting to embrace that a little more now that my head is starting to clear of outside influences.  These are good times.