Life Update - or - Hello freedom, where have you been all my life?
Hello Lovelies!
I realize that it has been quite a while since I have posted anything of real substance or with any real regularity. So, first off, sorry about that. I was catching up on my flist today I realized I should probably so an update since I actually have time for that now.
That's right people. Guess who finished her Masters Thesis?
(On a side note: Pretty sure I have arthritic typing fingers now.)
(I used up all my big words so this is all you are going to get. - Higher education, your move. I just kicked your rear and you know it. Boom does the dynamite and etc.)
(Yes, I pretty much did the exact duplicate of this dance. Except I did it on the bed and ended up falling on the mister and sleeping for 12 hours. He said I snored, personally I think he was secretly amused.)
(Seriously, if the world had ended I wouldn't have even noticed. DOESN'T MATTER, GOT EDUCATED! BAM.)
Finishing my thesis was almost anti-climatic because I pretty much hit save 50 million times, backed it up on 4 different mediums and then slept for like...two days. - But yeah, when I woke up this was pretty much me. I spent the next day basically dancing around the flat in my pj's with my headphones it singing horendously off key and probably scarring my boyfriend for life with half assed/creepy/spontanous bouts of random dancing to music only I could hear.
My thesis is a whooping 86 pages along. Yes. You heard that right. 86 pages. I am going to let that sink in for a moment. If I printed it out I would be responsible for killing like a third of the rainforest. Think about it, if you paper-cutted yourself on this loud mouthed bastard you'd bleed out.
(This gif was pretty much me throughout these last few months.)
Mixed together will a little bit of this:
(This has been a bit of a tough year. TYIL: Getting a masters degree is hard.)
Bottom Line:
Positives:
- Finished my MRP (Masters thesis) + Masters degree
- Got an excellent grade.
- Got great grades for the year.
- Can totally apply for a PHD anywhere whenever I decide to.
- We are flying home at the end of the month!
- I can now do fun things. Non-school things.
Negatives:
- I need to start getting exercise. Like whoa. Sitting on my ass for a year has not be awesome.
- I have forgotten what sunlight and the outside is like.
- Until recently I had forgotten what freedom tastes like.
- I have no money to buy celebratory alcoholic beverages.
- Did I mention I'm poor?
- We leave Toronto to head back home to British Columbia at the end of the month. OMG PACKING. SELLING SHIT. PLANNING.
- My sleeping schedule is totally boned. It is 7:17am and I haven't gone to bed yet. This year has entirely messed up sleep for me.
- WHAT IS THE REAL WORLD OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL AND THESIS?!?!
- A keyboard mash pretty much sums up my brain right now.
Results: Gategurl gives herself a pat on the back. Because really. I made it. With the numbers and the things that matter!
HOWEVER....
Unfortunately, I have gotten to the point where the below gif is pretty much an accurate description of how I view any further school endeavors at the moment. I am pretty sure this degree has made me think twice of the PHD. Probably still will, but yeah, I need a break.
(But really, the thought of a PHD right now makes me pretty much feel like Loki right here.) - Sure, you can laugh. But in reality my brain is like HAHA NOPE on the mere thought of it.
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So, this year can pretty much be summed up like this. It kicked my ass but in the end I won cause, much like Neville Longbottom, I rock in all things. (And he could have saved the world. Actually, he pretty much did if you consider the events of the last book.)
In short, I love you all. Please forgive me for being horrendously boring and a unposty-mic-poster. I hope to have more time to comment on everyone's posts and get back to fic writing in a serious way. I miss creative writing. Because really I have to say that I have had my fill of proper grammar, footnotes (my thesis had over 300 by the way...), citing and all that other junk. I want to work on writing things where my imagination, style, and creative juices can just run amok once again.
I have way too many wip's right now. So much fic to finish. Not to mention so many half completed but yet unposted fics that I need to clean up and eventually get posted. Primeval, Hot Fuzz, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Walking Dead, Sanctuary, Star Trek - you name it. I swear my word document folder is a cess pool of lost fanfiction fragments and half finished sentences.
Well. I should probably go to bed before the mister comes out with his grumpy face. Smootches loves!
PS: And yes, perhaps I did spend half a day just looking up appropriate gifs for this post. Shove it, I have the time now!
<3 you.