Daily Newsie

As it turns out, Dr. T. didn’t mind that my paper was a little short; in fact, he praised my concise rationale and literature review and said I did an excellent job building my case. I still got an 89, but that’s because I didn’t flesh things out as well as I could have; I neglected a few areas that would have made the whole shebang more well-rounded. But still, he said he’s looking forward to chairing my thesis committee and seeing how this study works out in the end … and I have to say, I’m excited for him to be my thesis guru. The subpar grades I receive in his class sometimes make me so angry, but once I calm down I realize that he has valid points, and with him leading my thesis I should kick everyone’s boohiney into next week.

Today’s project is for Applied Organizational Communication, a case study of a former employer and how its employees disengage themselves from it. Unfortunately, I was told I can’t use the pseudonyms my participants chose (sorry, Princess Contessa Bananahammock), but I think it’ll be good anyway. I had some excellent sources.

The latest news is that Strawberry now has a smattering of friends on the balcony: Tomato, Parsley and Pepper. We spent yesterday prowling around town looking for things to plant (and shopping for wedding rings), then had to take three — three! — trips to Lowe’s because our new leaf-patterned lamp had two broken cousins that, of course, we picked out first. It was rather annoying that all the returns person did was giggle a little every time we walked back through the door, but I suppose if we were more aggressive people we could have gotten a discount. The third lamp we picked up is quite lovely and all in one piece, so we’re content.

Back to work! I’m the idiot who neglected to back up the first draft of this paper, so when The Fiance’ rebuilt his laptop the file was deleted. He warned me and I told him I had it all under control, but after a frantic morning trying to find it I figured out that I never backed it up. Whoops. Luckily I have a paper copy, but it’s still a pain trying to type the whole thing over again.

Happy Sunday and a very happy birthday to my Grammy, who turns 83 today!