Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand
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I waited until the icky boy stepped away from her side for a moment and then I went up to her at the meeting yesterday and told her that I appreciated her comment. And then I asked her how her Prelim went because it was originally scheduled for October but she told me it has been pushed back repeatedly and is now supposed to happen in December. We chatted for a few minutes about mundane things and then I hugged her and we exchanged "love you"s. And I didn't cry before, during or after. I feel like the Bigger Person. Maybe I can do this forever. But preferably she'll finish her doctorate someday and get a job elsewhere and they will all move away and out of my life. Please, oh please.
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I just spent 3 hours editing an email.
It was so much shorter than the first draft. Bare bones necessities.
I did not commit to writing my eloquent indignation or veiled threats. I'm wisely waiting on counsel from my advisor instead of making points that I'm not sure could count for anything.
Good job me.
It was so much shorter than the first draft. Bare bones necessities.
I did not commit to writing my eloquent indignation or veiled threats. I'm wisely waiting on counsel from my advisor instead of making points that I'm not sure could count for anything.
Good job me.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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i stuck to my dinner plan tonight, and i decided to wait until i sleep on it to respond to henry.
you snooze, you lose
well I have snozzed and lost
I'm pushing through
I'll disregard the cost
I hear the bells
so fascinating and
I'll slug it out
I'm sick of waiting
and I can
hear the bells are
ringing joyful and triumphant
well I have snozzed and lost
I'm pushing through
I'll disregard the cost
I hear the bells
so fascinating and
I'll slug it out
I'm sick of waiting
and I can
hear the bells are
ringing joyful and triumphant
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Something about a server switch, Vic. Big crash, most of us went into withdrawl and some migrated over to Hatrack for our fix. Anyway, it came back up, and here we are.
You going to be sticking around?
You going to be sticking around?
"Only for today, I will devote 10 minutes of my time to some good reading, remembering that just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul." -- Pope John XXIII
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i cleaned my room. completely. i made my bed.
tonight, for the first time since september 5th, i will not be sleeping on a bare mattress.
i put the sheets back on.
serious triumph.
tonight, for the first time since september 5th, i will not be sleeping on a bare mattress.
i put the sheets back on.
serious triumph.
you snooze, you lose
well I have snozzed and lost
I'm pushing through
I'll disregard the cost
I hear the bells
so fascinating and
I'll slug it out
I'm sick of waiting
and I can
hear the bells are
ringing joyful and triumphant
well I have snozzed and lost
I'm pushing through
I'll disregard the cost
I hear the bells
so fascinating and
I'll slug it out
I'm sick of waiting
and I can
hear the bells are
ringing joyful and triumphant
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Today my mom called me and asked me what i was doing, and without thinking or missing a beat I said, "Oh, I'm about to head up to the school to grade some papers."
We both laughed.
I've heard my father say that, with that exact same inflection I used, about fifteen hundred million times over the course of my life (he's an incredible high school math teacher. If you've never heard me brag about him, ask me sometime).
I'm my father's daughter.
We both laughed.
I've heard my father say that, with that exact same inflection I used, about fifteen hundred million times over the course of my life (he's an incredible high school math teacher. If you've never heard me brag about him, ask me sometime).
I'm my father's daughter.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I got an A on my multivariate final, and in the class as a whole. I missed nine out of 191 points (all, sadly, from the same question -- unfortunately, I'm not real good about interpreting the univariate follow up tests to a MANOVA)
Seriously. I go back and read those exams and go, "Damn, I understood that!?!"
It's way fun.
Seriously. I go back and read those exams and go, "Damn, I understood that!?!"
It's way fun.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
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i didn't cry once today. even upon hearing more henry stuff. and listening to The Last Five Years on repeat for seven hours straight. literally.
telling henry that he is the reason (indirectly) that i stood up to my mother. it does not make his life any easier to know it. but my job isn't to make his life easier anymore. it's to make myself into a happier, more confident, healthier person. and i needed to tell him that he was the subject of the fight for my own sake. even if it causes him pain and stress.
telling henry that he is the reason (indirectly) that i stood up to my mother. it does not make his life any easier to know it. but my job isn't to make his life easier anymore. it's to make myself into a happier, more confident, healthier person. and i needed to tell him that he was the subject of the fight for my own sake. even if it causes him pain and stress.
you snooze, you lose
well I have snozzed and lost
I'm pushing through
I'll disregard the cost
I hear the bells
so fascinating and
I'll slug it out
I'm sick of waiting
and I can
hear the bells are
ringing joyful and triumphant
well I have snozzed and lost
I'm pushing through
I'll disregard the cost
I hear the bells
so fascinating and
I'll slug it out
I'm sick of waiting
and I can
hear the bells are
ringing joyful and triumphant
Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand
Congratulations! Wholeheartedly from one who does understand, who was once the wife of a Clinical Psychology graduate student, guinea pigged for him (not, of course, a "real live person" there ;^)) as a first test subject, and then watched (silently cheering) as he did the Real Things with naive subjects for the first time.I just administered a WAIS-III today. To a real live person who is depending on me to tell her her IQ. I am awesome.
......
I survived my first Rorschach administration.
(and who also watched as he and his study buddy worked with a test whose name I don't remember that involved reproducing figures with pencil dots on paper, and concluded from it that they both had massive brain damage--the worst case of "Sophomore Syndrome" that I ever saw)--but I hope that story doesn't take the glow off the congrats....
It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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I managed to read through an entire essay on Freud without laughing aloud once.
*beams*
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Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand
Was it the Bender Gestalt?Congratulations! Wholeheartedly from one who does understand, who was once the wife of a Clinical Psychology graduate student, guinea pigged for him (not, of course, a "real live person" there ;^)) as a first test subject, and then watched (silently cheering) as he did the Real Things with naive subjects for the first time.I just administered a WAIS-III today. To a real live person who is depending on me to tell her her IQ. I am awesome.
......
I survived my first Rorschach administration.
(and who also watched as he and his study buddy worked with a test whose name I don't remember that involved reproducing figures with pencil dots on paper, and concluded from it that they both had massive brain damage--the worst case of "Sophomore Syndrome" that I ever saw)--but I hope that story doesn't take the glow off the congrats....
Nice to feel understood I ran my family and friend as guinea pigs for a year, which was fun and I owe them bigtime.
There's another home somewhere,
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
There's another glimpse of sky...
There's another way to lean
into the wind, unafraid.
There's another life out there...
~~Mary Chapin Carpenter
Re: Those Personal Triumphs No One Else Will Ever Understand
The Bender Gestalt it was! Hadn't thought the name of that test for years, but the bell rang as soon as you said it!Was it the Bender Gestalt?I just administered a WAIS-III today. To a real live person who is depending on me to tell her her IQ. I am awesome.
......
I survived my first Rorschach administration.
(and who also watched as he and his study buddy worked with a test whose name I don't remember that involved reproducing figures with pencil dots on paper, and concluded from it that they both had massive brain damage--the worst case of "Sophomore Syndrome" that I ever saw)--but I hope that story doesn't take the glow off the congrats....
Nice to feel understood I ran my family and friend as guinea pigs for a year, which was fun and I owe them bigtime.
And (brag, smirk, unjustifiably) I knocked the top out of the WAIS, but we'd really expected that, from the results of the Stanford-Benets that I'd taken in school, the fact that I was working as a bookkeeper (on _paper_! in the Lower Paleolithic, this was) daily, so in daily practice at retaining ten-digit strings, forward and backward, and not being the naive subject.
It is better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
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