Today I find out if we are going to get this project with an insanely quick turnaround. It's a contract to do this qualitative analysis for a federal program, and it absolutely must get done by February 24. They want a draft by February 15. THAT IS INSANE.

It would be a prestigious contract for us, on the other hand I am the main person associated ( Read more... )

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So I'm working all this weekend and on the Monday holiday to try and get this report done by next week. I wouldn't have to be working all these extra hours except I am going to be flying back and forth to New York twice for meetings, and then there is a two-day training for another project smack in the middle of all this writing I need to do ( Read more... )

So yeah, I might get a huge promotion tomorrow, or I might get shot down for trying to be too big for my britches in only 3 months.

Everyone hold your breath and we'll wait and see!

So I passed my dissertation defense! WITH HONORS! :o

I promise to write about everything and respond to everyone's well wishes, but right now I need to take a NAP. :D

How can I have 164 pages written and still feel like I have nothing? O_O ( Read more... )

How the hell did it become May 29th?? That seemed to sneak up on me pretty quick.

Well I've got three days until June 1st - My goal is to have revised the first four chapters and have them ready to give to my advisor by then.

I can do it, if I stop procrastinating and lying around feeling overwhelmed. If I just get to work, I should be able to get ( Read more... )

I pulled a cover letter together that I was pretty happy with, and I sent it out to two companies last night. Now I'll try and focus on writing some more and see if I get any nibbles. I'll definitely keep looking in the next couple weeks, but everything seems to be all converging at once. I'm going to have student interviews, job searching, and ( Read more... )

Woah. It has been SO LONG since I last actually posted something about my dissertation program, the whole reason I started this LJ in the first place! Yesterday was Blake's first day of work, and so it was my first day of getting back on the ball and starting things rolling again.

For a research fund request I had to make a timeline of what I'm ( Read more... )

You spin me right round, baby, right round, like a record, baby, right round, round, round...

So I am making slow progress towards actually doing something on my dissertation. I downloaded FileMakerPro and it has been really helpful in organizing all of my journal references. Now I can easily search by author or topic or whatever, and there is ( Read more... )