It has been another fast five weeks! I defended my dissertation proposal on the 28th of August. As luck would have it I ended up with a terrible cold, complete with a raging fever just in time to prepare my slides for the defense! How lucky is that? It ended up being ok in the end, since I was well enough to have a voice for the presentation but still sick enough that I had no energy to get worked up or worried. It seems Fate was somehow looking out for me.
I am now trying to schedule participants and recruit for the few last open slots. I am doing fairly well, but most people are super busy and that means waiting another month (or more) to meet with them. In the meantime I sort of bite my nails and try not to think about how crazy busy I am going to be over the next few months. I am teaching a course which is really demanding and it is being given online and so there are no boundaries. I am teacher 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Not that this isn't the case with a face-to-face class, but the expectations of the students are definitely different! On top of all this I am volunteering a bit of time to two causes I feel strongly about: the school library and Brownie Girl Scouts. The first one is a given - I love books and kids need to enjoy being around them, too! I try to make things fun for the kiddolas when they check their books out. It is so important for lil' ones to be exposed to the library as much and as often as possible when they are young. I also want to help instill in a young girl the idea that she can succeed and lead, because heaven knows they aren't getting that message nearly often enough in most other areas of their lives! The GS do wonderful things to help girls achieve greatness and I want to help in whatever small way I can.
Ok, I suppose I should get back to work. I am transcribing an interview today, helping out at the library and hopefully getting back to the image indexing data. It never ends!
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