Not bad

Today was my first day trying out my new strategy of uninterrupted writing.  And for the most part it will very well.  I made sure to close all of my email tabs in my browser and I wore headphones to help "excuse" myself from the lab atmosphere.  For the most my biggest challenge will be training my colleagues to leave me alone.  Also, I need to figure out how to move the telephone away from my desk so I am not the default answering service.  Today I worked on slides for next conference and, working from existing material, I was able to knock out a good portion of the talk.  I have a couple figure/plots to make tomorrow, but otherwise I'll be done.  Outside of my writing time, I delivered my stack of prints to the machine shop, so this work is now underway.  At least the material will be ordered and the work will be added to the queue, but at least this has moved off of my desk in a timely fashion.  After lunch I had a final look with my supervisor at the final draft of a grant application before I headed off to volunteer.  Not too shabby for essentially a half day at school.