My supervisor stood me up today, so it seems that a certain amount of the panicking I've been doing over the last week or so was in vain.

It has become apparent that the next two or three weeks are going to be among the most insanely busy weeks I've ever had -- and I choose at this point not to listen to friends who've already completed Honours and say encouraging things like "You know this is only the tip of the iceberg" and "It's just going to get worse from here".

As it stands ...

Today, 2pm - meeting with supervisor
Tomorrow, 3pm - seminar with a tonne of reading to complete
Thursday, 9am - tutorial presentation
Thursday, 4pm - work
Friday - cleaning up, in preparation for ...
Friday, 6pm - brother arrives
Friday, 8pm 7.30pm - taking brother to the engineering revue
Saturday, mid-afternoon - parents arrive
Sunday, 11am - work
Sunday, mid-afternoon - family departs

Next week is only slightly less hairy.
Monday - probably a rescheduled meeting with my supervisor
Tuesday - panicked study in preparation for
Wednesday, 3pm - giving a 2 hour long tutorial by myself
Thursday, 4pm - work
Friday, 10am - possibly meeting my supervisor?
Friday, 5pm - 2500 word paper due in
Friday, 9pm - sister arrives
Saturday - probable sister-related drama
Sunday, 11am - work
Sunday, 3pm - sister departs

The week after that is pretty tame. I need to submit a paper based on my tutorial from the week before, and will be working my usual Thursday-Saturday-Sunday-Monday shifts.

And then the week after that, I'll work on the weekend and then am going to Canberra for several days. I will barely be seeing my family at all, which is probably good, given that I'll already be overloaded on family from their visits here. Instead, I'm going to be spending some seriously quality time with my friend Em, chasing around after all kinds of bureaucratic things. She's getting married in January and has just asked me to be a bridesmaid, so we want to figure out dresses and she wants me to help scout out venues.

Somewhere in there, I'd like to fit in my knitting group at lesat once, some swimming (because running up and down the library stairs has played havoc with my demented knee, and swimming seems to be good for it), and I really, really want to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oh, and Wallace and Grommit, but I forget when that comes out.

Whew. I'm tired just thinking about it all.