holding pattern

We had a meeting at work Tuesday about our annual report.  The annual report is a compilation of all the work each unit in our lab does throughout the year, we put the data in tables with a little write up and have it printed for our records and for the Director of the Center.  It's actually pretty neat to see what kind of projects and workloads the other units deal with.  However, that wasn't what was interesting about this meeting. 

The big news was that there is a new grant from the FDA that is being worked on that will bring money, new testing and new projects in.  Upon hearing this I decided to sack up and go speak to my lab director regarding my interest in doing something different within the lab.  She seemed receptive to my request and said she would look further into it and what I might be able to do.  I'm hoping it's not just boss speak, and that she will give me an opportunity.  If not, there are the other jobs I've put in for...the hospital job, the research lab, and I even went to a headhunter.  Something is gonna happen :)

Other than that its been a busy week again.  I have some projects to do around the house and have been laying the ground work for them.  There's a shed, blinds, a grill gazebo and a few other small things which need to be addressed.  My thoughts are to start getting them out of the way within the next 2 weeks so I can pick up the intensity in my training.  I also want to hit up Brian for another private before I start ramping up.  The last one I took was very helpful, and I have been working some of the things into my warm-ups and my game.