breathe

Your secret from Jean-Sebastien Monzani on Vimeo.

a video to celebrate the submission of my dissertation...now i just need those pesky signatures (2 down, 3 to go).

peace!

you could win...

lookie what you (i) could win!!

http://quiltwithus.connectingthreads.com/profiles/blogs/an-interview-with-anita?medid=BE100712&elink=2%3AKarens+Corner&media=BE100712&email=%7Bemail_address%7D

if you win after finding this through my blog, will you share?? the winner gets some fabric and a cool book to use with the fabric!

peace

8 days

so yesterday i was talking to my sister, meg. and i had previously told her that the due date was the 19th...so there she goes saying, "so, you only haeve 9 days, huh?" and i freaked out a bit...but i got over it. today i sent the final chunk to the committee...now i just have to get on OK on the overall abstract and then put it all back together and then to the grad school by next monday, july 19th. we are celebrating a little tonight and ordering pizza we are feeling poor, but it is yummy pizza and will last for more than one meal.

now i just need to find a job and get my account "unfrozen" (read: give the university more $$) and then i can access my transcripts and get said job...i hate this part...feeling like no one wants me, but i don't know that for sure...

oh, well what will happen will happen and it will all work out in the end, right?

peace

20 days and counting

got feedback for 2 chapters, message out to author of an article i am using heavily and have not heard back...want to get the stuff out and done...july 19 is the deadline to get things to the grad school with minimal(?) changes can be done after that...but i wanna be *done*

i wanna quilt and knit...just learned about a cool method of knitting-in-the-round on straight needles...knitting a hat/purse has just seemed to ease up...can't wait to try it, but gotta finish the stupid dissertation first, but keeping going until december is sounding better...there *is* a class i want to take, but i don't know if i can afford (money and time) to do that, but have not heard about pitt cc and a possible job...time is running short and i need to figure something out. school would be an option and i could get more $ from the feds...delay the re-payment of the loans, etc...frustrating..sigh. it will work out as they will i just need to let things happen and keep typing/thinking about the damn paper.

peace. sigh.
feeling a bit like the one on the treadmill...from comic "Speed Bump" on June 23, 2010.

re-re-re-writing

boy, am i having fun! (NOT!!!). i find it hard to be motivated when i am getting no feedback from the two chapters i have re-submitted and i have no job prospects...sad but true. i am going to apply all over the stupid state, though i would prefer to stay around here...maybe something closer to VA or SC, but still nearer the coast than the mountains...we shall see. august is fast approaching and things are getting a bit scary in the job/$$ picture...i refuse to flip burgers, but who knows what may happen after all the kiddies go back to school in august/september...keeping my fingers crossed, but still applying to places...sigh

peace

the post grad let down

i think it is on the same lines as post-partum...i know i have been taking my medications but i sm still a bit down. everyone has left and here we reamain. i can't seem to get back into the swing of the stupid dissertation now that i have been just hanging out. i *know* i need to get back into it, but i am finding it hard. i have begun to fill out an application to Craven Community College, they have a full-time prof position for biology...sounds good, would start in the middle of august. but i have to get it filled out and sent in and all that. it would be in new bern...about 45 min to an hr away...not too far and bigger than greenville and that much closer to the ocean...can't get my hope up too far, but it would be nice...now just to get the stuff filled out. guess that is all for now - once i get the application filled out, i guess i should just jump in...but i want to start with chapter 3 and everyone else seems to want me to start with chapter 2. i have started, but not gotten too far yet...sigh.

peace - heading for literary immortality:

family time

well...the family starts to come tomorrow (wednesday)...we are having a party on friday and then heading to the beach on saturday...andy goes home on saturday and the others go home on sunday...

i really need to get on the edits and changes for my dissertation!

found a cool camera at best buy today...water proof to 5 m or another to 10 m. but ~$260.00 - a bit too rich for my budget at the moment...add it to the wish list, i guess.

gotta get cleaning again...peace.