My apologies

I'm sorry for the blog silence. School is killing me. Maybe I can convince Aaron to do blog posts? HA....that'll be the day.

So we had our thesis defense on 1/31. Worst academic experience of my life (and I thought I had a pretty diverse portfolio so far...Rappahannock....UVA....poster presentations at nursing fairs....etc). I've used the following analogy to describe it to a few people. Picture someone standing across the street from you (thesis advisor).....gently encouraging you to step off the curb, teaching you to look both ways, how to carefully put one foot in front of the other.....you're finally past the middle line, it's been smooth sailing across one lane....now to cross the other lane....step by step....almost to the opposite curb...then BAM.....gigantic bus hits you out of nowhere. Um hello? Thesis advisor? Weren't you supposed to be coaching me through this? Anyhoo....we got the "Congratulations! You've successfully defended your thesis!! (After sitting with them for 2.5 hours as they ripped it to shreds)....We're gonna give you a B....and you have to fix this and this and this and this and this and...." well you get the picture. If self-esteem boosting is what you're in need of, don't expect it at a thesis defense.

At least I get to come home to these cuties every day....and they love me even if my thesis is B grade...!

And now I'm gonna steal this from my lovely cousin Ellie who lives across the pond at the moment..... I'm avoiding discussion responses and thesis revisions....this is much more fun! It likely won't be as amusing as her responses, but indulge me?

Fill in after the bold words...

1. I want someone to clean my house from top to bottom and get rid of all the clutter because I know it would make my husband deliriously happy and I don't have time to do it.

2. I love curling up under cozy covers with a book that has nothing to do with management concepts or health informatics or hydration status in elderly psychiatric patients.
3. People would say that I'm superwoman, but that's because they don't see me curled in the fetal position crying myself to sleep every night.
4. I don't understand the pervasiveness of anacoluthia amongst my graduate level classmates who already hold management positions. How did you get there?!.
5. When I wake up in the morning, the house is totally silent and I try my best to maintain that, but occasionally my clutziness derails that plan.
6. I lost my sanity somewhere during the past year and a half...maybe at the end of grad school it will miraculously return?.
7. Life is a bowl of cherries, unfortunately I can't stand the taste of cherries. Whose idea was that?!

8. My past is becoming less and less complicated compared to my present.

9. I get annoyed when Chloe repeats the same sentence 45,000 times in a row, but then I remember she's a three year old and her attention span is approximately 4 seconds long.
10. Parties are depressingly absent from my life...except for the couples party I'm hosting at the Starling LoveNest this coming Friday evening. Will there be an arm-wrestling tournament? Why yes, there will be!.
11. I wish I had a personal assistant who could carry out mundane tasks for me every day while I work on the important stuff....or maybe I'd want her to do the major stuff and I could slack off on the mundane things.
12. Dogs are cute in theory, but my allergies and dislike of slobber disprove that theory.
13. Cats cause near anaphylaxis for me, so sadly I cannot be friends with them at all.
14. Tomorrow I will get up and jump on the hamster wheel again after too few hours of sleep.
15. I have low tolerance for poor grammar. Make that zero tolerance.
16. I'm totally terrified of heights. Couldn't even do the Eiffel Tower in Paris. I know, right?!
17. I wonder if this whole going to grad school thing is gonna end up being worth the headache and gray hairs.
18. Never in my life will I like the taste of pickles.
19. High school was thankfully a long time ago. I see high-school kids on the city bus every morning and wonder if I was that ridiculous and inane?.
20. When I'm nervous I tend to forget to breathe regularly.
21. One time at a family gathering I took a whole bunch of awesome family photos, took them to Walgreens to get them developed, and Walgreens RUINED the film. I learned to never take film to Walgreens. EVER.
22. Take my advice: Don't apply to Winona State University's Nursing Administration Master's program.
23. Making my bed is something my husband does for some strange reason. I think it's a totally wasted effort.
24. I'm almost always dreaming about the penthouse I will someday own in Paris overlooking the Seine.
25. I'm addicted to food...and not the healthy stuff.
26. Maybe I should tell my professor how I really feel about her.