My spouse got waitlisted for OGS so the wait is killing us in a different way... we need all those NSERC recipients to turn down their OGS offers!! It really is frustrating that OGS is announced before NSERC/SSHRC, seems like a waste of admin time to process all the OGS award acceptances only to have them turned down 6 weeks later...
I have a very different situation with my supervisor. We can work from anywhere we'd like as long as we are still productive. I'm currently on the other side of the country from my lab. True 'vacation' though... that's a different story. Definitely something to discuss directly with your PI.
Does anyone fully understand where graduate students fall under the new tuition assistance grants that will start 2017? It seems too good to be true....