ABD

This is my cat MONET!

ABD - ALL BUT THE DISSERTATION! This is where I am at right now. In other words, I am finished with classes (ALL), BUT I need to finish my DISSERTATION. What a great feeling...I don't know what I will do with myself on Thursday evenings. For the past 2.5 years, I have had class on Thursday evenings...actually, I had many of my classes on Thursday evenings when I was working on my masters. Bad night - Grey's Anatomy night - what the hell were they thinking? :)

What I have left to do....

I turned in Chapter 4 (Results) yesterday to Dr. Paul (rough draft). I had a little meltdown yesterday...I could not remove these "lines" on my paper. I tried everything. Jim tried everything. I got so pissed, that I hit my computer and the letter "P" flew off - nice. I think the "P" stood for "pissed". I laughed at myself thinking that I am going insane because of a few lines on my paper. I shot my paper over to Dr. Paul asking him to ignore the lines, but with a little help, he gave me some direction on how to remove them.

I have to start writing Chapter 5 - "Discussion" I think this will be the most fun to write because I get to write about my interpretation of the data (of course without being bias). Dr. Paul believes this will take a weekend, but for me, it will take three weekends. I am also adding a "booklet" to the appendixes. I told Dr. Paul that I will be completely finished with my dissertation by the end of February. I am hoping to defend at the end of March - get myself prepared for the "worst" part! I just hope that they don't hurt me too bad. My mind is fragile right now :)

Patrizia and Lucio - Ciao Bella! Come stai. Io sto bene! Grazie for the comment! Patrizia is my cousin's girlfriend - they live in Torino, Italy. A picture is posted near the bottom of this blog. I really wish they lived here in America.

Until next time!