thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well, thumbs up to me. YAY!! i am now the lucky recipient of a ph.d. well...i will not officially receive the document until december, but i succeeded in the summer deadline for stuff. i am so darn happy...found out last-week friday, but not until yesterday was i 100% sure...there was a slight SNAFU on the paper work where it listed this tome as a "thesis" and a "M.S. in Biology." but the thesis-guru at school has assured me that it is just a typo and can/will be corrected ASAP. the signature on the tome is appropriate for the document to be correctly submitted, etc. it is mearly a matter of paperwork. YAY!!!

now, if i can just find a job...but it will happen, i just hope it happens sooner rather than later...sigh.

peace

RELAX!

i am taking a few days off from worrying about the dissertation related stuff. i have submitted everything they have asked for and now i just have to wait and see if i get an "up-thumb" or a "down-thumb" from the Powers That Be in the grad school...just hanging out and breathing and reading like a mad-woman and embroidering some antennae on some butterflies that i have been piecing for a friend-quilt...the bodies are being cheater-appliqued (read fusible + blanket stitch) on to the square and then i am going to have my friends write something (just their names or more, what ever they want) on the blank squares i have and i will be making a kind of memory quilt for the PhD-time...we shall see if i can get everyone to do it...just thinking that it would be nice to have that to remember ECU-people.

anyways...time for bed (0035) and i am ready to sleep and not get up with an alarm tomorrow (yay!).

peace

and a comic to pass the time "cats with hands" is the name of the comic strip

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