February Report

Oh yes, I'm still working on my dissertation. In fact I had quite a streak going—spending at least a little time every day working on it at the library—until the 28th of February, when I took a Mr. Flossie–mandated day off. (Perhaps he thought I was getting a little too obsessive.)

Result: an introduction that makes a lot more sense.

In other news, I met with my advisor on Friday, and she told me I can either defend during the last week of April, or not until September—she has a house in Canada and plans to be there for the next six months, barring a trip home in April. This was crushing, because in my head, the perfect defense time would be in early June, or at the soonest mid-May. It's hard to imagine waiting until September to have all this behind me, but it is also hard to imagine getting everything done by the end of the month (when my committee would have to have the whole dissertation in hand to have time to read it by April).

However, despite my disappointment at this turn of events, it's starting to seem like the dissertation may get done—whether sooner or later—and that is very, very good.