What's next?

After getting my doctorate, there doesn't need to be something next for me, but others seem to think there should be. There's no more formal education I need. I know how to learn on my own. I have the job that I want (and I am even better at it now). I don't want a different job. Nancy knows this too, so most of my time on weekends, after 4 PM on weekdays, and all summer long will be doing whatever Nancy tells me to do.

PSSA

This week's highlight has been praying the Rosary during PSSA administration.

Done

I got my PhD
Hip Hip Hooray for me ;)

Waiting Game

I turned in what I hope is my final draft of my dissertation. I have timed my presentation several times already. I'll probably go through it one more time today to make it even smoother, but I am really just waiting for feedback.

I don't know if this post is more for others or just a place for me to reflect. I could reflect privately, but that wouldn't help anyone else. Even if reflecting publicly doesn't help, this kind of post certainly shouldn't hurt.

How Much Love

It's not how much you do, but with how much love you do it...so, I guess there's no benefit to writing anymore toda

New Year's Resolutions

I have a notebook that I go through every January to see what I have kept up with that I wanted to and what I had wanted to do and decided not to (and those other things I wanted to do and just forgot). I schedule enough reminders for myself that there wasn't much forgotten that I had wanted to keep up with. What's disappointing is that I don't have any new long-term goals I want to accomplish. I think I am close to getting my dissertation approved. I finished what I think is a final draft, but I have finished several "final" drafts that came back from my mentor with feedback for changes. I run out of classes in 9 months, so by the end of this year, I will have passed or been kicked out. I don't want to be kicked out and I don't think they want to kick me out either, so hopefully I get approved before the final class, so I can feel that I earned approval and didn't get pushed through as good enough because time was running out. Of course, if I get to that point, I'd take it. Once my dissertation is complete, I'll have to decide how to spend that time whether it is at the end of the year or sooner.

Well, enough wishful thinking. I better get back to work on my presentation, so it is ready to go if the manuscript is accepted.

Forgotten

I try to schedule reminders for myself to do things I think are important, but if they were really important, I probably wouldn't need reminders. Blogging and reading blogs fall into that category. It's been about five months since I checked the blogs I followed and I only missed six entries. I knew how far to go back because of the last entry I made. I am not really ready to start blogging again, but this will be a good bookmark for me when I come back months from now. A lot has happened in the last nine months: I got my proposal accepted, collected the data, and now just have to finish the manuscript. I became the librarian at work. My two oldest are going to Catholic school, with the oldest running cross country. I wasn't expecting the offer to become librarian, so I can't say what I might have to say five months from now, but I hope it will have been as good as these last five for me and my family.