You know the part where I'm done with this dissertation, and with teaching this class, and with packing my stuff, and with moving in to my new place that's 3,000 miles away?
And I don't have to worry about how all that stuff is going to get done in the next, oh, three weeks?
Yeah, can we just skip to that part now?
On the bright side, I have the greatest advisors ever. I got comments back from both of them on my last chapter, and I finally got brave enough to read them (it's scary looking at comments, because what if they have no idea what you were trying to say, or there's some huge fundamental flaw that you completely missed because you were too busy getting the stupid statistical model to work, etc. etc.) and they're just the. greatest. So encouraging and understanding and helpful. Basically along the lines of, "This is a good idea, and I can tell it's not quite there yet, but it's good, so you should do the best you can with it for now, and then keep working on it." And also they keep saying things like, "I'm looking forward to continuing this conversation with you once you're Dr. Fricke." So basically, the best possible way to talk a tired and frustrated grad student down off the ledge!
Oof. I need to get back to work.
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