Today marks one full week after the end of jellytime. I was working on a poster yesterday, and I needed to relate that to what happens in normal years. The jellyfish died off 10 full weeks earlier this year than in previous years. That’s insane!
As additional evidence that hell has frozen over, pigs are flying, worms have ears, etc., the turnover time for things given to my advisor for review this week has gone from shockingly quicker than average to lightning fast. Wednesday, I gave him an abstract to read. Within 4 hours, I had comments, or at least a comment which was that I’m brilliant. Yesterday I finished the afore mentioned poster and sent it to him. In 30 minutes, he declared it awesome. Today, I edited an abstract for our intern and wanted to run the final version by him before I sent it off to her (of her original 180 words, I changed all but 15. I felt a little bad about it and wanted his approval). It took him literally a minute and a half to proclaimed me to be perfect in every way. Now one of two things is happening here: either he’s right, I’m brilliant, awesome, and perfect in every way, or he’s not reading these things and has no idea whether they’re great or complete bullshit. I’m betting on the latter. It’s been suggested to me that there’s a third option. Namely, he knows that I’m competent and trusts me to produce good work, but I doubt it.
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