Gotta Keep Moving Like a Shark
With the holidays there are expectations of the bruhaha that can pop up and usually I am fairly well prepared for it. As of right now, I have four major things going on in my world, with three being very positive and one being the cause of my occasional homicidal thinking. Elaboration? I thought you would never ask...
The animals have all come to a simple truce. Brown Dog and Lulu sniff at each other and Lulu lets him know when she has had quite enough of his curiosity. Sabrina has come to somewhat enjoy having Lulu around, although I don't think she enjoys the chasing at top speed all that much. Lulu came through her spaying with flying colors and you would have never known she had the procedure considering the bundle of energy she has been since we brought her back on Tuesday. All in all, I think we have a happy little family.
Sean and I went to look at engagement rings. A very surreal experience. We found a setting I loved and having all those diamonds out in front of me made me dizzy. When I had the finished product on my hand, I just looked down in disbelief. It looked...odd. But I find myself having more and more thoughts of the future with Sean, believing more and more that his love is true and will not waiver. I just never thought of my being someone who would ever get married.
I have finally had contact with both my dissertation chair and committee member. Essentially this is the deal. I do not have to fly out to California for a second shot at the preliminary oral defense since my chair is willing to accept the one I did before I went on internship. Yay! Also, my committee member confirmed something I had suspected all along...that the two of them as my committee would expidite the whole process. My committee member said "This doctorate is yours for the taking, just turn in the finished product." YAY YAY YAY!!! Right now I am finalizing some changes in the analysis/methodology section and I should be ready to start gathering data by the middle of January with a projected May graduation date.
Now as for work...this is the homicidal part. First of all that nasty inmate program coordinator once again tried to mess with me by going to command staff in an attempt to get me in trouble. She even went as far as to send me a memo about a week later regarding the meeting to again try and make me look as if I wasn't holding up my end of the agreed upon bargain. So I memo-ed her back...twice...with each memo also going to her supervisor. Hee! I also have other command staff pissed with me for something I had no part in, but I suppose it's easy to blame it on me rather than their own ineptitude. Sigh. Tomorrow I get to spend about 12 hours at work due to having to do a refresher training on suicidal behaviors for all the officers. My favorite part is having to go back in at 11:30PM to train the midnight shift. Life is good.
The animals have all come to a simple truce. Brown Dog and Lulu sniff at each other and Lulu lets him know when she has had quite enough of his curiosity. Sabrina has come to somewhat enjoy having Lulu around, although I don't think she enjoys the chasing at top speed all that much. Lulu came through her spaying with flying colors and you would have never known she had the procedure considering the bundle of energy she has been since we brought her back on Tuesday. All in all, I think we have a happy little family.
Sean and I went to look at engagement rings. A very surreal experience. We found a setting I loved and having all those diamonds out in front of me made me dizzy. When I had the finished product on my hand, I just looked down in disbelief. It looked...odd. But I find myself having more and more thoughts of the future with Sean, believing more and more that his love is true and will not waiver. I just never thought of my being someone who would ever get married.
I have finally had contact with both my dissertation chair and committee member. Essentially this is the deal. I do not have to fly out to California for a second shot at the preliminary oral defense since my chair is willing to accept the one I did before I went on internship. Yay! Also, my committee member confirmed something I had suspected all along...that the two of them as my committee would expidite the whole process. My committee member said "This doctorate is yours for the taking, just turn in the finished product." YAY YAY YAY!!! Right now I am finalizing some changes in the analysis/methodology section and I should be ready to start gathering data by the middle of January with a projected May graduation date.
Now as for work...this is the homicidal part. First of all that nasty inmate program coordinator once again tried to mess with me by going to command staff in an attempt to get me in trouble. She even went as far as to send me a memo about a week later regarding the meeting to again try and make me look as if I wasn't holding up my end of the agreed upon bargain. So I memo-ed her back...twice...with each memo also going to her supervisor. Hee! I also have other command staff pissed with me for something I had no part in, but I suppose it's easy to blame it on me rather than their own ineptitude. Sigh. Tomorrow I get to spend about 12 hours at work due to having to do a refresher training on suicidal behaviors for all the officers. My favorite part is having to go back in at 11:30PM to train the midnight shift. Life is good.