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[lavendertook]

I gotses a letter yesterday from the grad school sayin' advancement to PhD candidacy is a go. Wheeeeeee!!!!!! And thus The Summer of a Thousand Little Hurdles comes to a close on a happy note. So yes, I do get to go on and write a dissertation on my icon lady there, and second chances do exist. (-:

And my mouth is healing. And Milli did not disappear during the violent thunderstorm the other day when I found the door blown open but no Milli-cat to be found anywhere---eeeek! And I'm a good twenty pounds lighter than last year.

And my LJ friends so rock. I wouldn't have pulled through to this point without you. Truly.

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I gotses a letter yesterday from the grad school sayin' advancement to PhD candidacy is a go. Wheeeeeee!!!!!! And thus The Summer of a Thousand Little Hurdles comes to a close on a happy note. So yes, I do get to go on and write a dissertation on my icon lady there, and second chances do exist. (-:

And my mouth is healing. And Milli did not disappear during the violent thunderstorm the other day when I found the door blown open but no Milli-cat to be found anywhere---eeeek! And I'm a good twenty pounds lighter than last year.

And my LJ friends so rock. I wouldn't have pulled through to <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/timberwolfoz">this</a> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/abandonada">point</a> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/anneheart">without</a> <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/seigneurdeloups">you</a>. <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/sibyllae">Truly</a>. <a href="<a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/lavendertook/friends">*Hugs you all*</a>

OK, so research and writing, job hunting, nest arranging, walks, and play time continue as planned. Things are pretty good.(-:

Comments

[spookystoy.livejournal.com]

Caaaalllm is good, think of the wildflowers. ;D But seriously, CONGRATULATIONS! Soon we shall be able to call you Dr Took. :D And your icon lady looks very...coiffed.

Whew, glad to see that Milli-cat is safe and sound.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Ahahahhaha!!!! That would be awesome. Academics aren't anything more than marginally socially acceptable fans after all. (-;
Me too! Damn brat must love to see me panic over her! (-;

[anneheart.livejournal.com]

Yay!!

*takes your hand, dances around to loud ABBA music*

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Eeee!!!

*dances with you* (-:

[green-ghost.livejournal.com]

Oh so nice to read some good positive news this morning. It sounds like the constellations are aligning in your favour. Congratulations!
(Oh, and a hint for the clueless and uncultured... who is that lady?)

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Maybe they are, finally. Thank you!(-:

Nah, you're not uncultured or clueless at all not to know her--she got kind of shoved out of the literary canon the last couple hundred years and has only recently been making a comeback. That's Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle who lived and wrote during the 17thC. She wrote wonderful wild stuff filled with interesting women heroes and published theories on science and philosophy as well as plays, stories, and poems. She dearly wanted to be famous, so writing about her is a satisfyingly codependent endeavour. (-;

[abandonada.livejournal.com]

Yay! You get to do some academic writing on a topic of your choice! That's terrific!

Enjoy all your current thrills.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

That's the plan. (-; Thank you!

[barbary-coast.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! How long to you think that your PhD program is going to take?

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Well, I've finished all the requirements except for that little ole 300-400 pp dissertation--I hope I can get through it in two years, but they're granting me 4 years altogether, now that I've advanced to candidacy. So that gives me a little breathing room for the inevitable crises that life will probably present, but crossing my fingers I'll get lucky for 2 years and stay on course.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

Yay you!

If you want some encouraging stories about the PhD home-stretch, go check out rivkaw. It can be done.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

TY.(-:

I ran into all the things that everyone tells you about grad school, alas. But I've recovered now, and am back in the running. Some of the time I lost I spent helping the AFT get a union going for grad students at UMD and I don't regret that at all. Right now, I'm just trying to figure out if I can work full time, get the diss written, and keep up the other good things I've started to make me a happy person again--so plotting. (-;