Check out the new blog title! Can’t decide if it’s going to be a permanent change or not. Either way, it’s FUN! Thanks, Aaron. I’d kinda forgotten about doing that. Oh, and thanks to Indian Lady for writing "Dr." in front of my name on my karaoke slip on Saturday night. It was cool to be called to the front by the name "Dr. Abby."
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Terribly frustrating web problems, then Aaron and I went out of town for a few days. Something about DNS servers and Roadrunner being very slow updating its cache. That’s Aaron stuff, and he couldn’t fix it because we were just waiting on them to update their stuff. Lame!
The defense is now in 3 days and 15 hours, and I haven’t been thinking about it at all! Instead, we spent the weekend in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and it was so much fun. I can’t say I was exactly the most relaxed person on earth, but I really did get my mind off all the diss stuff for a few days, and I had a lovely time in the process. I’m uploading lots of pictures on Flickr, but here’s a teaser, so you’ll want to look more:
Big George at Ground Zero Blues Club
LOTS more pictures and stories very soon. I swear we met the whole town. It was such an adventure. For you in the Mid-South, I highly recommend a pilgrimage.
It’s just that my dissertation defense is in 15 days and 23 hours, and I have a lot of other stuff to do before then. I’m not sure I’ve been working on my dissertation. I’m not sure what I’ve been doing, but I haven’t been blogging, and I haven’t been Tribing. If I haven’t called you… if I haven’t written… then wait until May 16th to bother me about it 😛
For a correct up-to-the day countdown, please check out the "This and That" area of the sidebar. If you click on the picture, you can read all of my previous posts about my dissertation… You know, for the fun of it.
Man, the defense is in 31 days, 16 hours. I have an countdown extension on my Firefox browser. There’s a lot to do, but I’m just so uninterested. I feel like I need to be more nervous than I am. It’s like if I admit that I’m so close, I’ll have to deal with it, and honestly, I’m so sick of this project that I don’t even care anymore. But I’m sure as time approaches, I’ll care more. Today, I’m working on the reference section and the dissertation announcement. It’s dull. I’d rather be doing just about anything.
On the new Word Press platform, Aaron has the admin level 10, and I have a 9, because there can’t be two 10s, and he’s doing the really technical programming stuff. I’m always asking him to police me and make me work, so he said if he catches me blogging too much, he’ll shut down my blog until May 13th, the day after my defense!! Now that’s policing!
Hope y’all find me over here real soon. It seems awfully quiet so far. Also, check out the moblog. I’ve been trying to use it more. My new camera phone is FUN!
