Friday 12/21/2018 was the last day for official working days before Winter break.
I submitted a revised manuscript to journal office, made backup copy for digital files in my computer, chatted with a colleague, sent out a peer-review evaluation for someone's manuscript, and ended the day.
For this winter break, I did not schedule anything beforehand. 11 days of unscheduled chunk of time. How luxurious.
Yesterday I was just enjoying being lazy.
Today I went to my office, and finished a couple of peer-review evaluations due this week.
To some extent, a scientist is like an artist; like dancer or musician or painter. What they do is not entirely "work", but has elements of "play". The word "workaholic" may not be entirely accurate.
Anyhow, if I chose three news from 2018 in my work;
(1) We published a paper and a review article that are important to define upcoming work related to Alzheimer's disease.
(2) Initiated a collaborative work with brain trauma researcher. Sent out a grant proposal with them.
(3) Sent out an abstract for American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) annual meeting 2019 (March 29-April 3 2019) in Atlanta, and a manuscript related to the work.
During official Winter break, I'll take some time to appropriately plan for 2019. Most of good things will not happen if we do not make them happen.
An additional news would be, successful job hunt by my former Graduate Research Assistant. He found a job in Mew Mexico and moved. Good.
