insomnia

A huge sigh of relief when I found out my tuesday class starts NEXT week and not tomorrow. True store, once upon a time I would get excited for class to start again after a break. I guess that's when you know, you're pretty much burnt out with the academics... when school supplies don't make you giddy anymore. Ho hum.

Dissertation diary: Yay. I new little added section for these blog write-ups. This is where I tell you how much (or more commonly, how LITTLE) I've gone with my little magnum opus is going on. As of right now... the proposal is underway! I did a crap ton (I only use scientific measurements) of research and article reviewing despite the good weather and long weekend (#gradstudentprobz right?) and formatted a more comprehensive outline. Phew, let me tell you one thing... academic research makes for a great bedtime story. BIG TIP: don't read them in your nice warm queen size bed. I have a meeting with my chair and hopefully we can come up with more things for me too look for. I also need to revise my chapter one... BIG TIME (UGH). My writing voice is apparently not too "science-y" enough. Can I help it if I did well in creative writing in the 5th grade? It probably was not a practical goal to be the J.K. Rowling of research writing. Hopefully with school starting up again, I'll have a more structured and motivated mind-set. The to-do list that I made up for this thing is a bit daunting, but ces't la vie... I'm pretty much a the deep end of this graduate school pool.

In other news, I've been dealing with several health problems. It went in the order of conjunctivitis flare-up, fever/cold thing and now laryngitis. I still considered this weekend as one of my favorites of the year, go figure.