Coffee. More coffee. Even more coffee. Frankly, I don't want to think about how much I spend in a year on this. Let's just call it a bajillion dollars.
Replacement pens during the last two months in which I frequently drained the ink from a pen a day on my notes: $30.
Passing my oral comps and never EVER having to go through that rite of passage again: You know what it is.
Yay! Took the comps, passed the comps, even felt good about my answers on the comps. It was actually, dare I say it, verging on fun (minus the nausea) to get to talk about things I find interesting with thoughtful, intelligent colleagues for a few hours. I got to talk about Foucault and Judith Butler as well as the US as a simultaneously postcolonial and colonial nation and, of course, race and class and gender. No one tried to nail me in any way, and the one professor I was afraid of seemed to like my answers the most and was the biggest pussycat of them all. It still hasn't completely sunk in that I'm done with this hurdle, but I'm getting there. I'm just glad I didn't, you know, freak out unnecessarily or anything. Ahem.
I cannot thank everyone enough for the love, support, understanding (especially those who had to deal with me at my most neurotic or talk me off ledges a time or two or twenty), coffee cards, singing cards, gifts, flowers, emails, phone calls, and for those in town yesterday, drinks and food and more drinks and more food. (At last! A chocolate butterscotch martini at the Excelsior for the Little Match Girl!) Pretty much, when I felt like throwing up for the 24 hours prior to the exam, I just thought about my awesome friends and felt better. I really don't think I've been this relaxed in about a year, so I'm going to enjoy it for a while longer before thinking about things like...what do you call them? Ah, yes, dissertations. Thanks again for the support! And for those who still have something like this to look forward to in their future: all will be well.
Here is the dazed, goofy smile that was plastered onto my face for about two hours straight after the exam:
6 comments:
Congrats once again! Now you can relax your brain for a short while.
I repeat: red-headed stepchildren everywhere are inspired by your example. :]
Good job, lady!
A huge congratulations to you. You're awesome! I also dig the sentiment contained in those margaritas. :)
Yeah! Congratulations! Enjoy the break.
Yay! Everything else is just gravy honey. Nice work.
You deserve a High-Ten. The grin is totally fitting.
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