We have this thing called the Zone at the school where I work. It's reward play-time for kids who have made good choices. I supervise it for a half-hour per day ( Read more... )

I feel just unwell enough not to want to do anything.  I don't feel terribly ill, but my body seems pretty uninterested in moving much.  This is unfortunate as the house could probably use a clean and Christmas presents are waiting to be made.

I've done my writing for 52 Weeks, so that's not hanging over my head, but I need to paint the piece I ( Read more... )

Back to school.  It was a pleasant enough day, but I think I have to conclude that I was not meant to teach PE.  Not that surprising as I hated the class when I was a kid/teen.  Today we did running.  Yep, running.  I'm actually kind of grateful because it requires next to no equipment.  However, the main purpose of the lesson was to figure out the ( Read more... )

My, but I'm sucking at keeping this thing updated right now ( Read more... )

Honestly, this weekend has been pretty laid back.  I've been writing my report and doing final edits on my dissertation, but nothing hugely involved.  I've gotten to the point with the D paper that I'm reluctant to be much more critical for fear of over-thinking the darn thing ( Read more... )

See that number?  That's the number of words in my dissertation and that number is LESS than 15,000.  Boo-yah!

Anyhoo, report tomorrow and last proof on Sunday and I'm going to call this done.  Thank goodness.

I was going to rant about my landlady and her lack of giving notice before she barged in for an evening to clean and guilt trip me about the ( Read more... )

Soooo tired in my head.  I've worked straight through today from about 10AM to 10PM with about 3 hours of break time sprinkled in there for food and sanity.  And the result?

Well, chapters 2 and 3 have been stripped of all extraneous wordage, but I still need to clip out about 200 more words tomorrow from somewhere in 3, 4, and the conclusion.  I' ( Read more... )

Despite feeling good in a general way about my dissertation, I thought these two images pretty much summed up the way my brain is considering the whole thing at the moment.  It also offers completely unnecessary insight into my filing system while I'm working on a paper...


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Okay, obviously "real adult" was not the correct term to use in my last post.  I guess what I meant was that I can no longer see everything as leading to school or a degree.  I now have to live my life in the present instead of in the future.  Meanwhile, I'll still be as much of a kid as the next person.  I think I'd get terribly bored if I weren't ( Read more... )

I just got an email back from my prof and he wrote that I could more or less turn it in as it is.  I won't, of course, and he had a few suggestions for improving it, but what a relief.  ( :

The reason I've surprised myself is that I'm pretty much exactly where I planned and wanted to be at this point in time with this dissertation.  I made a time- ( Read more... )