Category: Z – Life (Deprecated)
Well, not impossible. But very difficult! Especially if the five people that you are e-mailing don’t all check their e-mail at least every day or two. But after 31 total e-mails over the course of a week, I have a defense date – May 6…
After four rounds of revisions with my advisor, I have sent my 141-page, 24,821-word dissertation to my committee, and have begun the process of scheduling my oral dissertation defense for the first or second...
Problems with the house. Apparently, there are several “issues” with our mortgage application that the bank only decided to let us know about two weeks before closing. Well, technically they sent the letter April...
The tables for my dissertation are done. I ran a total of 93 individual meta-analyses and produced 40 pages of tables over the last two days. My fingers hurt. It’s a lot like that...
Today, I got a haircut. And not just any haircut – it was likely the last haircut that I will ever get in Minneapolis. Now, that wouldn’t be so odd except that I have...
Last time, I said that each time things went well, I grew increasingly suspicious. That hasn’t really changed. You see, we got notification of final approval for our mortgage today, which by all accounts...