I know it has been a bit since I lasted posted but I did not want to jinx my good luck. So I finally got fed up with this not-responding game concerning my thesis and send an email to a faculty member I trust and respect. Next thing I know, I've got an email from the department secretary informing me that I need to choose a date for my thesis defense. Huh? Well, okay, I can do that. I'd like May 17th at 9AM please. That's a nice date and time. Then she calls me up, puts the travel agent on the phone and sets up flights to and from Provo. I like the direction we are heading in. Then I get a confirmation email for those flights. Even better, right?
So this means I will be defending next month. I'm still working my tail off to make sure the thesis is perfect. Unfortunately, the editing I've received ends at the 3rd chapter out of 6... Whatever. They can pass with "needs corrections" because that is STILL A PASS. Then I just make the changes and go on my merry way back home to AZ. Of course, there have been a ton of changes in the program (all of them in Sept of last year >.< ) so I have to muddle my way through those.
David has settled nicely into his chosen lab and is buried in lab work. All I know is there are slides of mouse and rat parts which turn pretty colors when he works with them. School finishes next week and finals the week after that. Then I fly out and defend. Yeah, the next few weeks will drive me utterly insane. Just wait for it.
Work has been abysmal. I've only worked about 1x a month since starting this job. I've applied for a summer position (only about a month of work there) and for coaching jobs in the district (we'll see how that goes). I figure if those both fail, I can just go with plan... I think it's plan H or I by now. I'll go to a temp agency and see what I can get. Honestly, at this point I just want to work. I'm back on parental insurance since it's far too expensive to put me on David's plan but that is a temporary solution. Plus, I would rather be working to help out - not that we're struggling, I just want to help. It would also give me my own insurance. Huzzah. However, I refuse to do anything until this defense is over. One: I want to focus all my energy on the thesis right now. Two: It comes first in my list of deadlines. Three: No job wants you if you're going to have to take time off soon after hiring for a defense (seriously, worst thing to say in an interview even if they ask "Is there any reason you would need to take time off within x-amount of time starting here?" even though you are being honest).
Still, overall, my luck has been decent. Not today though. I went to the U of A library for the Oxford Latin Dictionary, Brill's New Pauly, and Liddell... Found Liddell easily - I mean the book is HUGE! OLD was a disappointment since there were only the first 3 volumes on the shelf and I needed H, L, M, N, and V which were not there. BNP? HA, someone had the volumes of that I needed too. Dang it all. So I have to go back which is a huge pain in my butt. I either go before 5pm and have A) pay for parking (which is a ridiculous amount in my opinion) or B) walk the 3 and half miles from my apartment down there, spend my 30 or 40 minutes (does not take me long to look up words and create footnotes) and then walk back or C) go after 5PM which depends on David's schedule since I don't want to drive back and forth a million times to campus (include this problem with option A). Oh well, it has to get done. I have a great idea for the classical world: Make OLD, LSJ, and BNP available online. Pretty please?
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