Dr. Rosalyn | And as it ends, so it begins
It's the end of the second week of classes. Mom and I should both be done with random doctors appointments for a while. She's down a cataract and I'm down a skin tag so yippee. Skin tags are weird little growths that are typically benign but get annoying as they grow. This one was hanging out below my eye and just continuing to enlarge. It hadn't been there two years ago but it was hitting my glasses from time time. My dermatologist looked at it and went meh I'll just take it off now and within five minutes so it's gone and my face feels slightly weird to have it absent. So yeah health is good for both of us and I've settled back into work.
The graduate class is going well and I think we hit a breakthrough about how to be graduate students and how to do that with our support. And that has made me grateful because they are listening and that they might get there if they just go with us. We will get them to the finish line if they agree to just run the race. So their lives as undergraduates are over and they are walking to a new frontier with us and it will be an interesting journey. More students are interested in the study abroad course and I hope that it fills shortly, well before November officially and we can move forward with more planning and random things. And for quite a few of them their lives as only domestic travelers will end and it will be amazing.
And my life as someone who was working on their dossier is over as well. I tweaked it half to death it felt like. I thought I was done mostly a week and some change ago but then the teacher and editor in me said you didn't run a grammar check on the primary documents. So I did that on the 26th apparently because that's when the documents all were updated. I changed what seemed to make the most sense and then left the rest of it alone because that's how I write and didn't want my voice sanitized that much. So sometime last Sunday I did some more tweaking and then I left it alone. I woke up one morning thinking of some sweeping summary that would tie it up nicely but when I opened up the document it was like nah this is good. That would be flowery and effusive in a way that makes no sense. I also saw someone else's documents and went well mine is much better than this lol of course I'm biased so I said to myself that I should have at least that much confidence in my body of work and let it be again. I had agreed to leave it alone until the holiday but I didn't plan on changing anything and nothing presented that needed to be added. So in a moment of courage and dedication I consulted a magic 8 ball ha. Three in fact and they all said it was time. So late last evening I hit submit on my dossier and as soon as my chair makes sure everything that should be in there is there it will head out to the first wave of reviewers. There won't be a final verdict before the end of next spring but as I get news I'll be sure to share it with you as well.
Have a good weekend!
The graduate class is going well and I think we hit a breakthrough about how to be graduate students and how to do that with our support. And that has made me grateful because they are listening and that they might get there if they just go with us. We will get them to the finish line if they agree to just run the race. So their lives as undergraduates are over and they are walking to a new frontier with us and it will be an interesting journey. More students are interested in the study abroad course and I hope that it fills shortly, well before November officially and we can move forward with more planning and random things. And for quite a few of them their lives as only domestic travelers will end and it will be amazing.
And my life as someone who was working on their dossier is over as well. I tweaked it half to death it felt like. I thought I was done mostly a week and some change ago but then the teacher and editor in me said you didn't run a grammar check on the primary documents. So I did that on the 26th apparently because that's when the documents all were updated. I changed what seemed to make the most sense and then left the rest of it alone because that's how I write and didn't want my voice sanitized that much. So sometime last Sunday I did some more tweaking and then I left it alone. I woke up one morning thinking of some sweeping summary that would tie it up nicely but when I opened up the document it was like nah this is good. That would be flowery and effusive in a way that makes no sense. I also saw someone else's documents and went well mine is much better than this lol of course I'm biased so I said to myself that I should have at least that much confidence in my body of work and let it be again. I had agreed to leave it alone until the holiday but I didn't plan on changing anything and nothing presented that needed to be added. So in a moment of courage and dedication I consulted a magic 8 ball ha. Three in fact and they all said it was time. So late last evening I hit submit on my dossier and as soon as my chair makes sure everything that should be in there is there it will head out to the first wave of reviewers. There won't be a final verdict before the end of next spring but as I get news I'll be sure to share it with you as well.
Have a good weekend!
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