Thesis - Still Not Over

After I finished my thesis presentation and turned in my paper, I knew I wasn't quite supposed to relax yet. I did not allow myself to think that I was done. My committee needed to review the paper and give comments so I could do a final revision. The early feedback was that only minor changes were needed. I allowed myself to relax a little.

However, when I got the comments and started working through them, clearly my committee and I have different ideas of what constitutes "minor." I nearly burnt out making revisions yesterday. I'm still not sure how to get everything done by the end of this week. I have no doubt that it will be accepted in the end, but it is daunting how much I need to get done.

I am so ready for this to be over.

Fellowship

As a lover of words, I love how a word can come into play in a situation with a variety of nuances.  The word of the weekend is "fellowship."

A lot of time the last few days has been focused on revising my application to the AAHID graduate research felowship. I did not get accepted for 2010, but I am reporting for 2011. This has gotten a lot of my mental energy...i would love to win this, and with my reworking of the proposal I think I have a pretty good chance.

I so enjoyed good fellowship this wedkend. Rob's sister Debbie and brother in law Matt were in town to visit. I really enjoyed spending time them.

I must admit that I am a bit worn out from juggling all this fellowship. I am looking forward to some downtime.