Entry 13: In Which We Return to the Blogosphere

....aaaand we're back.

I hadn't realized how long I'd been away from the internets. Things have been crazy-hectic-impossibly-mind-bogglingly busy the last two weeks, but will hopefully settle down now to only moderately chaotic.

...is that how you spell "mind-bogglingly"??

In any event, I had a thesis committee meeting yesterday, in which I basically said "here's everything I've done, now may I please graduate?" I wanted to wrap up as much work as I could before the meeting so I could be really specific about what I did, how it turned out, and what I have left to do. In the end, it was somewhat unsettling to see two and a half years of my life reduced to three pages of bullet points and four graphs.

The good news is the committee liked it. Provided I finish processing the last little piece of data and write it all up properly, I have their blessing to graduate. Good thing too; I don't think the university gives refunds on the massive "commencement fee" I paid last week..... Ah, they get you coming and going, they really do.....

So I finally finished all my statistics (and this time I'm 98% sure I'm using the right tests), resulting in 59 pages of output from SPSS. (No, I am not kidding.) There's one little segment of data to finish processing, and I have my fingers crossed that it will go smoothly. Aside from that, the only thing left to do is write. That's all I plan to do for the next four weeks: write, write, write.

Well, that plus teach lab, grade papers, hold office hours, proctor exams, go to work, attend lab meetings, and mentor-slash-boss-around my undergraduate, who is currently writing a senior thesis on her part in my project.

Huh. Maybe things aren't going to settle down just yet....