First Day of School

So today it all begins again. I met with The Chair to discuss most recent issues with reading list and its inability to be approved. Hopefully, I will have that paperwork done by next Friday. But when I have an absent committee member who never plans on returning to this state, it makes timeslines a bit hard. I've been working on this damn list since, oh, I don't know, LAST FALL!

Insert buddha belly rubbing moment. ommmmm. OM....

My current plan is to do whatever I am told, so I may get on with it.

On a happier note, we talked about my potential dissertation topic today. On the upside, my ideas are very VERY timely, and if I get my ass in gear I need to get published sooner than later, so that my name is one of the first associated with these ideas and new turns in thinking. On the down side, I need to get published sooner than later, so that my name is one of the first associated with these ideas and new turns in thinking. So my highly irrational plan for the next two years may work out.
December: prelim test
January to March: hit the diss hard
March: I kinda hope I get to go home for a bridal shower/bachelorette party. My ma's friends had offered to throw one (which we all know is really for my ma then me.) but she hasn't heard from them in a few months. Of course, the divorce gets in the way of everything. More on that later.
April-July:Hit Diss again, hard. Try to whip out one chapter for pub. as article
August: I get married. honeymoon. brain turned off.
December: have diss pretty much done, and set up a defense for early spring
May 2009: graduate. and.... maybe be pregnant. If J has a good job.

I know, I know, it's all pipedreams. I'll be here till 2010. sigh.