i did it! [191.365]

I earned my Ph.D! The defense went well and I don't want to forget it so I'm going to write a bit about it here. For the first part of my introduction before my talk, my advisor read the opening paragraph of my personal statement from when I applied to grad school here, which was…

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…

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: 109 [124.365]

I didn't end up adding any pages today, so tomorrow's page count will be the same. Today was about setting up some data analysis (still more to do there), doing some grading (still more of that, too, alas), and meeting with my advisor to set a writing schedule. First interim due date: my first two…

it begins. [121.365]

May 1 dissertation page count: 90. Decided to take a photo this morning, noting where I'm starting as I make the final push toward the finish line. I've managed to write 90 pages so far this year in bits and blobs, but now I need to finish the thing. I'm planning to take a photo…

view from my desk today. [73.365]

I got to work at home, by myself, today. It was glorious. I wish I could have had all 5 days of this that I was supposed to have, but I'm grateful for the one. I hadn't realized just how badly not having a window in my office was affecting me this year. I almost…

self portrait in a side-view mirror. [28.365]

My workdays don't give me many good photo opportunities (especially while daylight hours are so limited), so y'all get a quick SP, shot on our way to pick M up from school after work. At least the sun is still up when we leave! Today got off to a rough start. M's having a hard…