1. My physical therapy’s getting nuts, y’all. The little ankle exercises that I could do on the couch have morphed into things with elastic bands and single-legged squats and crabwalking everywhere and doing what amounts to a solid circuit workout twice a day. So if you see me hobbling around and making faces when I do tricky things like breathing, that’s why. But also, I feel strong and a little awesome for the first time since my injury, and you don’t know how good that feels.
2. I have a new plan for my dissertation and fourteen weeks to complete it and I am READY. So ready. Cheer me on, why don’t you? Ask me how I’m doing. Offer me tissues when I immediately burst into tears. You know the drill.
3. Maybe the most important thing to tell you guys: I’m finally making the switch from Blogger to WordPress! (You should hear a little ta-da! in your head.) The transition will happen over this weekend and you might notice some small aesthetic changes, but you shouldn’t need to do any feed-fixing or re-subscribing or what have you, unless you’re following me through Blogger itself. But just in case, check in with me on Monday? I don’t want anyone to fall by the wayside without realizing it.
It’s Friday–shall I sing you out? Or maybe I’ll let these guys do it. They’ve been in my hum all week, and I really like to share. In the meantime, tell me about your weekend. Doing anything fun? Let’s chat.
1. You’re my favorite.
2. I am so glad you feel strong!
3. How is the dissertation going? I have tissues, but you have to come to Ohio.
4. I love you.
5. Weekend = shoveling snow and mediating sledding disputes between smallish children, followed by the breakout of tequila, cheese and happy dance upon putting aforementioned smallish children to bed.
You’re my favorite too. :) The dissertation is…well, you know. SEND TEQUILA. XX
I had to do a thesis for my terminal degree (shorter than the dissertation, but with just as much mental bloodshed on some occasions). I spent an extra year beyond the expected scraping that piece of work together and swore up until the last moment that it was not going to make page count, much less say anything I could feel okay standing behind. Oh, writing angst! I’m glad you are READY and, it sounds like, way more stoked at this stage of the game than I was :)
YES. Mental bloodshed is exactly the feeling. I am mostly ready because I haven’t reached the grind-it-out stage yet. It’s anticipatory ready (yay! thoughts of graduation and BEING DONE!), not “I totally feel like I can write 130 pages in the next 13 1/2 weeks because I have mental superpowers and no carpal tunnel” ready. :)
So glad you are feeling stronger – it’s taken too much time already :-)
Yay on the dissertation! Double yay for the end of the fourteen weeks…
The change to WP explains why the link in my inbox didn;t work – still linked to blogger – and yes I am running a little behind. Seems all went well.
I might switch to self-hosted this year, after my course on webdesign – or I might just drop is cuz I am too technically/compter challenged, who knows ;-)
Keep going strong, Sharone!
Hi Fenny,
You’re an email subscriber, right? I will have to check on the feed settings for that.
Good for you for taking a web design class! I’m thinking I need to learn a little more. I’ve been working with a great company, Jellyfish Web Services, and they have made everything so easy for me, but this whole transfer process has made me realize how very little I know about any of it–and I hate that!
Thanks for your encouragement. :)