definitive: prog·ress
-noun
1. a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
2. developmental activity in science, technology, etc., esp. with reference to the commercial opportunities created thereby or to the promotion of the material well-being of the public through the goods, techniques, or facilities created.
3. advancement in general.
4. growth or development; continuous improvement: He shows progress in his muscular coordination.
5. the development of an individual or society in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level.
6. Biology. increasing differentiation and perfection in the course of ontogeny or phylogeny.
7. forward or onward movement: the progress of the planets.
8. the forward course of action, events, time, etc.
9. an official journey or tour, as by a sovereign or dignitary.
-verb (used without object) progress
10. to go forward or onward in space or time: The wagon train progressed through the valley. As the play progressed, the leading man grew more inaudible.
11. to grow or develop, as in complexity, scope, or severity; advance: Are you progressing in your piano studies? The disease progressed slowly.
-Idiom
12. in progress, going on; under way; being done; happening: The meeting was already in progress.
[Origin: 1400-50; late ME progresse (n.) < L prōgressus a going forward, equiv. to prōgred-, s. of prōgredī to advance (prō- pro-1 + -gredī, comb. form of gradī to step; see grade) + -tus suffix of v. action]
-Synonyms 1. advance, progression. 4. increase; betterment. 11. proceed; develop, improve, grow, increase.
-Antonyms 1. regression. 11. regress.
i tell you what, there doesn't seem to be much to report on when you're just doing the daily. the big news is, there's very little big news. the great period of upheaval seems to be at an end (so be it) and both ST and i are just going about our business, both separate and mutual.
the diss. is inching along excruciatingly slowly, but perceptibly none the less. work on the house continues at an equally excruciating, but similarly perceptible rate. the puppy search is fully on and although it's slow, it feels leisurely rather than interminable so, there's that.
mmm, what else? well, it seems i have fiction back. for a while after my brother, then iris, then ST's grandmother, then my grandmother died, i could not concentrate on fiction. it was terribly paradoxical because i go to bookstores to calm myself down, wandering the rows and fondling the editions has always been a way to self medicate (just the smell of new paper and printed ink puts me in a better mood; energetic or serene, whatever i need), but for nearly a year i've bought books, read a page or two and then forgotten them, letting them gather dust on a shelf. the world has been so immediate, so much with me, that i could not find my way to any other place, let alone get lost there. but happily, it seems that since my vacation with ST in early april, the spell of limited attention has lifted. in fact, i've been scarfing down trashy novels like it's going out of style (and it well may be, but i couldn't care less). i figure that's progress. and i like progress. why, it may be my very favorite-ist thing.
1. a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage: the progress of a student toward a degree.
2. developmental activity in science, technology, etc., esp. with reference to the commercial opportunities created thereby or to the promotion of the material well-being of the public through the goods, techniques, or facilities created.
3. advancement in general.
4. growth or development; continuous improvement: He shows progress in his muscular coordination.
5. the development of an individual or society in a direction considered more beneficial than and superior to the previous level.
6. Biology. increasing differentiation and perfection in the course of ontogeny or phylogeny.
7. forward or onward movement: the progress of the planets.
8. the forward course of action, events, time, etc.
9. an official journey or tour, as by a sovereign or dignitary.
-verb (used without object) progress
10. to go forward or onward in space or time: The wagon train progressed through the valley. As the play progressed, the leading man grew more inaudible.
11. to grow or develop, as in complexity, scope, or severity; advance: Are you progressing in your piano studies? The disease progressed slowly.
-Idiom
12. in progress, going on; under way; being done; happening: The meeting was already in progress.
[Origin: 1400-50; late ME progresse (n.) < L prōgressus a going forward, equiv. to prōgred-, s. of prōgredī to advance (prō- pro-1 + -gredī, comb. form of gradī to step; see grade) + -tus suffix of v. action]
-Synonyms 1. advance, progression. 4. increase; betterment. 11. proceed; develop, improve, grow, increase.
-Antonyms 1. regression. 11. regress.
i tell you what, there doesn't seem to be much to report on when you're just doing the daily. the big news is, there's very little big news. the great period of upheaval seems to be at an end (so be it) and both ST and i are just going about our business, both separate and mutual.
the diss. is inching along excruciatingly slowly, but perceptibly none the less. work on the house continues at an equally excruciating, but similarly perceptible rate. the puppy search is fully on and although it's slow, it feels leisurely rather than interminable so, there's that.
mmm, what else? well, it seems i have fiction back. for a while after my brother, then iris, then ST's grandmother, then my grandmother died, i could not concentrate on fiction. it was terribly paradoxical because i go to bookstores to calm myself down, wandering the rows and fondling the editions has always been a way to self medicate (just the smell of new paper and printed ink puts me in a better mood; energetic or serene, whatever i need), but for nearly a year i've bought books, read a page or two and then forgotten them, letting them gather dust on a shelf. the world has been so immediate, so much with me, that i could not find my way to any other place, let alone get lost there. but happily, it seems that since my vacation with ST in early april, the spell of limited attention has lifted. in fact, i've been scarfing down trashy novels like it's going out of style (and it well may be, but i couldn't care less). i figure that's progress. and i like progress. why, it may be my very favorite-ist thing.