elanya

Well, bread in toast form, anyway!

It is the weekend, and as I am lucky enough to have a job that doesn't require weekend hours, more time off for me! I am hoping to get more dissertation work today. Right now I am going through a report on a site I am using as a comparison so that I can pull out relevant information - what is the history of the place, how was it excavated, why do I think it is a relevant/interesting comparison - so that I can do a couple-page write up on in in my chapter. I have a couple of other sites to do, but I I am hoping to be able to knock these out pretty quickly as I go. If I'm really lucky I'll be done this chapter by February, then I just need the intro and conclusion.

I need to look up the deadlines though, because I'm afraid I'll miss the August graduation time line by just not being able to get stuff to my (notoriously slow) committee :/ Basically this semester is one of CONSTANT (but variable levels of) PANIC! My I-20 expires in August, so really I need to be DONE by then. And really I should be looking for jobs too. like now. Only there is so much shit I need to be putting together for that and I just... ugh :( I don't have it :( I'm trying to really focus this semester, but at the same time I need outlets or I'll go nuts.

Anyway, the point here was: today I am trying to focus on diss work, but I have some exceptions - I want to take some time tis afternoon to put together my monster for mailing. And I felt like there was something else, but I forget.

Now I have finished my toast (bread maker rye with no carroway) and cheese, and have a mug of tea to linger over as I blow through the rest of this report :)