There’s not much spring in the winter these past few days. We’ve got a bunch more snow, and recent temperatures have been as low as -20°C (-4°F). On the upside, we did see some pretty active Northern lights the other night.

Not a whole lot going on right now, really. Olof took Lucy to the vet last Thursday and got the stitches taken out of her eye. She’s still not a hundred-percent healed, but she looks better than she has in months. She’s still wearing the cone of shame for another few days at least, and she’s got some pills and eyedrops, but I think this ordeal might finally be winding down.

Tomorrow morning I’m heading to Uppsala again, this time with Lydia in tow. The kids are on a mid-term break this week, and since I have just one meeting tomorrow afternoon this is a perfect opportunity to take her along. We’ll spend the night and have all day Wednesday to see what there is to see (mostly inside the shops, I’ve no doubt) before coming home late in the evening.

The next couple of months are going to be pretty busy for me with school — I hear that May will be hellish — and I need to figure out how to manage my time more efficiently. I’ve never been what you could call a diligent student, exactly, and I’m really starting to feel that working against me. Much to my dismay, I find that I started this program uncomfortably far behind my peers when it comes to research experience, so between the catch-up I’m trying to do and the actual work of the program I’ve got a pretty full plate.