I felt my first kick!
Yayayayayay!!
We almost both fell asleep next to each other on the hood of my car. Holding hands
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
Take jobs as they come -- and we'll never be under the heel of nobody ever again. No matter how long the arm of the Alliance might get, we'll just get ourselves a little further.
Mal ,'Out Of Gas'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jessica - Aug 13, 2009 2:24:37 pm PDT #19627 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Steph L. - Aug 13, 2009 2:38:09 pm PDT #19628 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I felt my first kick!
Woot!!!
Why can't I just live there, in that moment?
It would be nice, but....
Except I can barely wait for the next moment.
This.
Volans - Aug 13, 2009 3:17:15 pm PDT #19629 of 30000
move out and draw fire
First kick!
Barb - Aug 13, 2009 3:48:40 pm PDT #19630 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Yay for first kicks, GC! What a wondrous moment!
And IOmeN: Agent of Awesomeness loves the revisions I did on When the Stars Go Blue (AKA, the Carmen book). Right now, she's not foreseeing any more revisions (thank the gods and little fishes) and it shall begin making its rounds in September.
Maybe now I can relax and work on Between Here & Gone and try to get it finished by December, if not sooner.
DebetEsse - Aug 13, 2009 3:54:17 pm PDT #19631 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Whoot!
Atropa - Aug 13, 2009 4:10:42 pm PDT #19632 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, the past is a perfect predictor of the future, provided you keep living in the past an not move on. Yours truly being a prime example.
Count me among the people who need to print that out and put it somewhere I'll see it EVERY DAY.
Yay GC!
Yay Barb!
Yay Sean & Date Girl!
Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 4:30:42 pm PDT #19633 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I'm getting all stressed out about my dissertation. What if I can't finish it? What if it's not good enough to pass? Right now, I've kind of got two big results, and my advisor keeps saying that, once I find a way to link them, then I'll have a thesis, but I can't find anything to link them in the way that he thinks they ought to be linked, and if I can't find that, then will he say that he can't recommend me for graduation? I don't know if he's right that what I have isn't enough without that link. I've found some smaller links, but not the sort of thing he's talking about. What if I really can't do this? I feel like I've been working my ass off and getting a lot done this summer -- I've written at least ten pages, which brings me to a total of about thirty, and the thesis is supposed to be about 100, but a lot of that is background stuff, and I've got at least another five to ten pages worth of results that I haven't written up yet -- but he starts off just about every meeting with, "I feel like we haven't accomplished much this summer," and he's got to be a better judge than I am of how significant the work we've got is.
Hil R. - Aug 13, 2009 4:40:30 pm PDT #19634 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
::crickets::
DebetEsse - Aug 13, 2009 4:41:31 pm PDT #19635 of 30000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I've never dissertated, but I don't know that I'd trust his judgment on much of anything. I'm not sure his mental version of your work conforms to reality in a meaningful way.
amych - Aug 13, 2009 4:50:10 pm PDT #19636 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
he's got to be a better judge than I am
He's really not. A major part of the PhD/diss process is that you're in the process of becoming the expert on your particular research, not him.
Which doesn't mean he won't be a condescending tool or try to throw up bureaucratic roadblocks, because some advisors are just like that, and he sounds like one. But don't believe it when he says you're not getting any real work done.