Well, I just got word that the incredibly stressful paper I was working on at the end of last semester has been accepted! Which is good. I think. Except that now I have to keep doing some work on it and then PRESENT IT. Which means I, personally, will have to get up in front of a currently undefined number of people (who know the field and whether or not I'm a hack) and talk about the paper and the research for a currently undefined amount of time (probably 45 minutes?).
Can you say nervous? I sure can.
So right now I'm trying to improve the paper a bit with some of the headway I've made over the last couple of months. Final version is due on August 1, and the presentation is in September or October-- don't remember at the moment.
Now I just need start my thesis proposal. *sigh*