haircut day. [151.365]

Got my hair cut today. Just a trim. I have to go pretty often (if I'm keeping my hair short, which is what I want to do) because my hair grows crazy-fast. I mean, from what I understand, the average is about 6"/year if you don't cut your hair at all and mine was more…

friday. [150.365]

In that weird state where I've done everything I can do until I get that last bit of data, and I haven't heard anything from my advisor because he's in China right now, so I'm not "done" but I can't actually do any more. Friday was the first time I let myself go on Twitter…

thursday. [149.365]

On Thursday, I finished writing everything I could possibly write, with the exception of the results from my very last experiment, which are weird, and which I'm running a quick followup to figure out.

wednesday. [148.365]

(Just catching up - didn't get a chance to post anything since Tuesday!)

page count: 215 [147.365]

Started at page 215 this morning. well, really this afternoon, since this morning M had her 30-month well-baby checkup (the verdict? M is healthy, and BIG, and at or ahead of all her milestones, and we are doing a good job raising her, says the pediatrician!). Did some more work with my data, but am…

two point five. [146.365]

Happy half-birthday to this crazy kiddo! M's half birthday coincided with Memorial Day this year, but we had no real plans, since I'm still in the throes of dissertating, so traveling was out of the question. She went with A to the zoo in the morning while I struggled mightily (on no sleep, thanks again…

me and my girl. [145.365]

This morning we went to the Cobbs Hill Reservoir. A ran around the 0.7 mile loop (several times), while M and I walked it together (just once, but with lots of backtracking, because toddlers + directions = nope). Wrangling a toddler, who alternately wanted to bolt (dangerously close to some very steep drop-offs) and be…

my little cutie. [144.365]

She's so darned cute with her hair clipped back like this. She actually left these hairclips in for most of the day on Saturday!

page count: 210 [143.365]

Today was rough. M didn't let me sleep AT ALL last night, so I was operating on no sleep, and of course it's a Friday, which is my day to pick her up from school at 3, so my worktime was cut short. Not that I was getting all that much done by the time…

page count: 197 [142.365]

Thursday was super productive - I ran a ton of statistical models, got some interesting results, and wrote them up as Experiment 5 for my dissertation. One more experiment's worth of data left to go, and it'll all be written up.

dealing with data. [141.365]

Spent my first 3 hours of work time this morning fighting with my big old spreadsheet of data. I made some (what-turned-out-to-be) dumb choices about how to code things and then had to redo a bunch of stuff and if I weren't so tired, I probably could've figured out how to write a script to…

still writing…

Just checking in. My most recent page count: Inching ever closer to 200. I'm kinda wordy :) I now have finished drafts of the first 4 Chapters. Hope to have a draft of Chapter 5 by the end of the week, but I've got to work out some data/stats issues before I can do that.…

page count: 192. [140.365]

Inching ever closer to 200. Tuesday was a frustrating day; I didn't get to do any writing, but instead was annotating and coding data literally the entire day. Like, until 9pm. It was just one of those days where you have to do all the preliminary stuff that's necessary in order to make progress, but…

page count: 181 [139.365]

Today's page count: 181. So I guess Friday wasn't quite as unproductive as it felt like, since I did add 6 pages. By the end of today, I was at 192, and had a finished draft of Chapter 4. That leaves Chapters 5 and 6 to do. Chapter 6 will be the easier of the…

beautiful day on campus. [138.365]

The graduation ceremony for our department's undergrads took place on Sunday, and one of my students from my Language Development class asked me to be the person who handed her the diploma during the ceremony, so I got to sit up with a bunch of faculty members who'd been asked to do the same for…