Update

I went radio silent there for a few days - I went out of town for the weekend and got some much needed time away from the lab, but now I'm paying for it with both excessive tiredness and lots of work to do.

Anyway, about and hour before I left on Friday the boss comes in and asks me when I'm leaving. I tell him, in about an hour. He has this frantic panicked look in his eye and mumbles something about my abstract, and getting it to me right away. Now, I was disinclined to wait around for the abstract that would most certainly come 5 minutes before I ran out the door, so I told him just to email it to me whenever, I'd work on it over the weekend no problem. He says, great.

I check my email several times over the weekend (the only work I really did), nothing. Not a word. Monday rolls around, and finally I get it back, however rather than make comments, he just rewrote the parts he wanted changed. Hmm - was it that bad or is that just how he does things? Anyway, pared it down to meet the word limit and submitted it, so that's done.

Right now I'm taking the next to last (hopefully) pieces of data for the paper. I've revised and edited and am just waiting for these 5 numbers, then I'm sending it to him. Hopefully he'll get back to me on this version, 3 seems to be the charm.