I'm going on a research trip this month, and have a bunch of grant money coming in to pay for it. Unfortunately, the money doesn't arrive until early in the month, so I haven't been moving very quickly on booking things like flights or applying for visas. Now, it's a week before I intended to leave, and I'm running around like a crazy person trying to make up for the fact that i put things off so long. I think it will be fine, but I could do without the extra stress.
In fact, this pre-travel planning always makes me wish I was just staying home. I love travel and do quite a bit of it, but every time, I just want to lay down and pretend it isn't there. I guess this is why people go on all-expenses-paid tours rather than doing things themselves!
This is the same as grant applications, scholarships, and all the other things that an academic has to do in order to survive, and I dread it. Ugh.
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