New Planner

Tomorrow is the first official day of my new planner. I've moved everything over from the old one and thrown it out. It feels clean and organized and nice. Turing hasn't torn out any pages. There aren't tons of scheduled appointments and then crossed out appointments. There are cryptic notes to myself in the back about presents to buy for people that I no longer understand.

I defended my dissertation on Friday. It went about as I expected - very congenial and I got a lot of good feedback. Unfortunately, I didn't get much feedback in the months leading up to the defense, so I now have a ton of revision to try and plow through before baby appears (wouldn't that be nice, to just have the baby appear). But I don't have to do any further analyses - just a very large set of revisions to my document. I have all the signatures except my advisor's who will sign off when he thinks I've adequately addressed all their concerns. Go.

For as crazy as it sounds, I think I'd rather plow through to finishing, even if baby comes before I'm done. If baby comes tomorrow, I doubt I could finish before real sleep deprivation sets in. But if he waits another few weeks and I'm 2/3 done, I'd rather eek out 3 hours a day over the first weeks of his life than wait for real sleep deprivation to set in, wait to get functional again, and then try to remember what I was going to do for revisions. It all seems fairly clear at the moment. Go.

My advisor threw a party after the defense. It wasn't just for me, but for a lot of different reasons with people from the big grant we've been working on. It was really nice to hang out for a few hours, though talking with people all day wore me out and I fell asleep immediately after we got home. The catered food was absolutely amazing and we took Turing on his first boat ride. Somehow, the lake seemed bigger to me once we were on it. Turing loved it - especially when it started to go fast and the wind blew his hair and we'd bump over the waves. We're bad parents and failed to get any pictures, but he is still talking about it so maybe we'll try to sucker our way onto someone else's boat sometime soon.