Random Ruminations

I've been away from my blog for far too long. Bad girl! But here I am. Too much has been going on but I have established one thing--I can't give up blogging and reading blogs esp. the Kenyan blogs. So here I am for my fix.

I've been working on a project that I needed to finish--my thesis. At my school, as long as you are done with course work and are writing your thesis you can take part in the graduation ceremony. I had been procrastinating completion of this monster but I realised the brown smelly stuff had hit the fan and I just had to be done. So since wg-k's last entry, the eyes have been glued to the screen and fingers to the keyboard

The reasons for procrastination are complex and varied but that anti-climactic feeling of being done could be one of them. Seriously. I mean for weeks, all I've done is eat, breathe, think, dream my thesis. Spitzack, Butler and many others are so ingrained in my mind, I think I will be reciting them from memory for the next few years. But now that my thesis is complete, there's nothing--I've been hurtling toward this big finish and ........ZIP! Nada! Nothing! Zilch! The thing that has defined me for the last few months is no longer there....sad. Now I have to find a new identity as I can no longer claim grad-student-in-throes-of-thesis-writing status.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I'm done and I know my hubby is glad to have his wife back--I think he was beginning to think of me more as his roommate, if you get my drift--I just never anticipated that the feeling of being done would be as blah as this. Welcome to the real world shugahh!

I have 10 more days of vacation left before I start teaching in the second summer session. I'm pretty sure that will inspire lots of blog entries. Students here constantly surprise me--and not with their amazing acumen--but that's a post for another day. At least it's a paycheque.