Life gets better

It's the first Sunday of March. We're now at the end of the first quarter of the year, Time definitely flies! Today is a bright and warm day but thankfully, we have some breeze making the heat more bearable. As I'm writing, I have this back pain which started yesterday when my upper back suddenly hurt. It was bad and my mind was already thinking of the worst-case scenarios again. But I had to be mindful and control my breathing. And it indeed helped calm me down.

Anyway, onto other things... My supervisor and I have finally finished editing and revising my thesis. Yay! I just need to submit it on or before the 11th of March. I also have applied for application to admission to the doctoral examinations and I am glad my thesis defense committee is also complete. The next step is to schedule my defense and prepare for it. Also, four days from now, I will be having an online interview for a postdoc position. The research topic is not exactly the same as my PhD research but I would say, they are somewhat related. Both deal with cellular organelles and I have a strong feeling I can use my mitochondria background with the research of the group working with extracellular vesicles in the context of kidney diseases. It is exciting and I am so ready to get back to working again. I will now need to use the next three days to prepare for the interview. In my previous interviews, I've been short of specific things which I can now use as parameters in my interview preparation. I hope this interview will be a nice discussion and that I will have a good connection with the Principal Investigator and his group.

Life gets better! Hoping all of us are on track in pursuing our dreams.