I am so incredibly proud of Jeff - I can't emphasize it enough! Not only did his committee give him the green light to get his Ph.D., but he did an awesome job at his dissertation defense. I have always known that he is an awesome presentation-giver (shut up, that's totally a thing), but he knocked my socks off yesterday. Sometimes it's hard being married to someone who is so freaking good at everything, but right now I'm just in awe and little-girl giddy that he's mine :)
I knew that moving, graduating, and having a baby would be stressful, but it seems like we are getting hit left and right with complications. On Thursday, the day before Jeff's defense, Jeff's boss had to go into the hospital for an appendectomy. He's fine now, but for a very tense few hours no one knew if Jeff was going to be allowed to graduate. I was freaking the eff out, shaking, crying, nearly vomiting...Jeff promised me that we would still be moving as planned, and he could just come back and defend later, but I was one unhappy camper and I wasn't sure he could really make that decision - what if Toshi wouldn't be able to take him until he had his degree? It all worked out, though, thank goodness. I've also been running into a ton of roadblocks with graduating and finishing up my research, and of course there's the nightmare we went through with trying to find movers. I think we're finally settled down though...we'll see what happens next.
Monday I have a committee meeting, hopefully they will tell me I can graduate! I am surprisingly not that stressed about it, because the worst that can happen is they say I can't graduate and then I will just...not graduate! The people who I have interviewed with are all fine with me just having a Master's degree (although I would probably get paid a little less) and we are moving regardless so I can't really get worked up about it. It would actually be kind of nice not to have to worry about finishing my thesis and coming back in December! I'm really dragging my feet, though, I'm supposed to be putting together a presentation right now. I really wanted to get it done today so I can spend time packing tomorrow, but I suck.
It's insane that in a week we will be on the road. We need to pack everything up so we can get it loaded Thursday (in FIVE DAYS), but we still have some time. I'm not going in after Monday and Jeff's last day is Tuesday. If I think about it too much, I might vomit!
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