Less than a Month to Dr.
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...
Unexpected Deadlines
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...
Meta-Analyses for Easter
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...
Training in a Knowledge-based Economy
A recent post at the SIOP Exchange from Jacob McNulty said this: Training: in the world of Facebook, Google and You Tube, people are accustomed to getting the information they need when they need...
Farewell to a Stylist
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...
Home-Buying, Part 4
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...