What's my job again???

I've been so busy with non-research job responsibilities for the last two weeks.... it's really starting to get on my nerves.

We are hosting a swanky dinner in DC at a conference and I was in charge of picking the restaurant and the menu, managing the budget, sending out invites, accepting RSVPs etc......  We were aiming for a group of about 10-12.  When it looked like we weren't going to get that many, we started inviting more people.  Looks like we will have about 24 people now.  Craziness!

We also have this water conference in April.... TIME VACUUM!!!

Lastly, I'm in charge of our summer internship. We have over 60 students apply so far - for 4 slots and the resume cut-off date isn't until next Friday!  I have started delegating some of the student-tracking to my admin, but there's no way to push the selection process off on to someone else.  I'm spending a day at Dickinson and Villanova interviewing students.  We'll interview approximately roughly half of the candidates that apply in the first round.  Excluding the two trips to college campuses, I will conduct about 30 interviews at 15min a pop.  That's over 7 hours of interviewing and its just the first round!!!!  This isn't my job - does our HR dept even exist???  About half of those students make it to the second round.  Luckily, at that point, I will only have to interview the students for my intern-slot.  I match a few candidates to each of the other teams hosting interns and they are responsible for making the final selection for each of their teams.  We should have a great bunch of students with this many people to choose from - that part is amazing!

I was supposed to publish an industry piece during the first week of January..... I'm finally getting to it now.