I've been preparing for an international conference, and the deadline for my papers was tomorrow. However, the organizers announced an extension to the end of the week.

That's a huge relief to me. I've been preparing two papers. I tell my colleagues that I don't like to go to this kind of conference unless I can present two papers, because I feel like there should be enough bang for the buck. My colleagues think I'm crazy to try it, and I was definitely scrambling this weekend. I got one paper out for review by my coauthors, and I sent out another just this afternoon before finding out we got the extension. Neither paper is as complete as I'd like, but now I have a few more days to squeeze in some work.

To top it all off, I found a bug in my analysis code right before I saw the announcement, so I can fix a problem that had been plaguing me for a long time.