Listening with bated breath....
and saying, good girl!!
palmer house hilton, baby. beautiful lobby, looks like a ceiling of a church, all painted around you know. i walked around a bit last night, but boy is it cold! must go see if they still got breakfast, for i am still in bed, hee heee, the good life.
i'd recommend a real chicago breakfast place for you, but i can't remember the name of it and the food was heart attack fare.
mmmm, i could sure go for a real chicago sub right now. mmmmm.......
back from chicago - last march. but next week i will have a large departmental presentation of the dissertation thing. terrifies the bejesus out of me, although i know that, as usual, all will be fine...
All will be fine.
This is as freaky as it gets. There will be stress, but this has to be one of the all-time stressiest stressors. (Well OK having a baby was a li'l nerve-wracking.) But I well remember the lead-up to E.G.'s Ph.D dissertation + defense -- ugh. Awful.
Not defending yet, that will be sometime in April or September - depending on visa papers and stuff - might prolong it just to be able to keep two part time jobs... I'd rather be having a baby, for the fun part - research, outline - are long done. Plus the baby grows up into someone hopefully decent, the dissertation, well, if all goes well, will not be seen again by anyone.
Quote:...the dissertation, well, if all goes well, will not be seen again by anyone.
Which is how on might prefer a child.
(Though not the sozlet, of course.)
Can I go to the presentation?
Of course you can come. You can all come! and ask questions I give you beforehand. Pdog, you are BACK!!!!!! where were you hiding?
Can I ask questions like "Does yr bf have a gay, single friend?"
yes, and yes, i'm sure he does. i don't know yet, for he's brand new!!!
<off to find flights to Boston>
;-) i have a gay handsome colleague. he runs a family funeral home though! is that a problem?
seriously Dasha? That'd be fun. So long as the question is one I can pull off without feeling like I'm over my head.... When and where? BU?
When and where...and what? Did you ever tell us what your learned dissertation is about? Good luck, dag.
friday, 29th, 2pm (i know, that's a bad time). the masterpiece is about the use of historic memory in politics and perpetuation of ethnic conflict in central europe. or some sorta sumtin like dat.
Well, I can't go after all. Damn.
that's too bad. it will be a party!
