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I owe ALL the updates - yes, litterally ALL the updates - but that probably isn't going to make posting them happen. For now, I'll say that I finally managed to talk on the phone with advisor R this afternoon after many attempts, mishaps, and wrong-number adventures. The most salient point I'm taking away from our conversation, besides things like she approves of my teaching ideas for the fall (yay!) and thinks my dissertation thoughts constitute something topic-like (yay!) and wants me to press on with my research plans for the summer (yay!) and reminds me that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" (she knows my weaknesses), is that DISSERTATION ENDGAME IS COMING... but not this summer. I am going to bring her some chapter ideas in the fall, and then we will plan. In the meantime, I get to think in terms of chapters not a whole dissertation again, and do not actually need to have an overall argument yet. Once again, yay!
Other highlights of today included a nice late-morning of iced coffee and reading at the Bean Scene downtown, followed by lunch with my mom at the Cracked Pot, also downtown, followed by a nice walk home, and more reading and then tea and French practice with my mom in the backyard after we got home. Then there was the interlude of attempting to phone advisor R before I finally got her to phone me, and then there were adventures in cooking tofu. They involved boiled salted water, a lot of drying the tofu off with a lot of paper towels, and a terrifying cast-iron skillet with oil in it on a red-hot burner. But I came out unspattered and unburnt, and the tofu came out crispy and delicious!
I also held a plank position for a full minute this evening, because I decided to work on my pathetic core and upper body strength again, and I thought I was going to die. I'll probably feel like I'm going to die when I try to move tomorrow, but for now, I live, after quite a good day!
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/689047.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.
Other highlights of today included a nice late-morning of iced coffee and reading at the Bean Scene downtown, followed by lunch with my mom at the Cracked Pot, also downtown, followed by a nice walk home, and more reading and then tea and French practice with my mom in the backyard after we got home. Then there was the interlude of attempting to phone advisor R before I finally got her to phone me, and then there were adventures in cooking tofu. They involved boiled salted water, a lot of drying the tofu off with a lot of paper towels, and a terrifying cast-iron skillet with oil in it on a red-hot burner. But I came out unspattered and unburnt, and the tofu came out crispy and delicious!
I also held a plank position for a full minute this evening, because I decided to work on my pathetic core and upper body strength again, and I thought I was going to die. I'll probably feel like I'm going to die when I try to move tomorrow, but for now, I live, after quite a good day!
This entry was originally posted at http://monksandbones.dreamwidth.org/689047.html. Talk to me here or there, whichever you prefer.