where my girls at?

...is a question I've been asking myself for awhile. Due to my absence most weekends in the AK, I've really not had much of a social life.

Don't get me wrong, I've got plenty girls to hang with (if their/my schedule permits) in my home state. But here....here I'm kind of alone.

Sure, there are department gatherings...but I feel like I'm a relic from earlier times. An artifact of year's past. Everyone I've met in the department are great....but there is a clear age gap. I need some ladies my own age to hang with. And I mean ladies. I need a ladies' night. Badly. I need to make more of an effort to find those ladies.

32 days and counting....

I've just completed my 32nd day in a row working on my dissertation. Granted, today was a small workday, but I can say I got something done. Goal is still to finish a draft of the dissertation proposal by October 15th. Still freaks me out a bit. It certainly doesn't have to be perfect, but it still seems like a huge task.

I feel like I've been through rehab...with 32 days of productivity. Luckily, alcohol is permitted in dissertation rehab. Perhaps my dissertation can be dedicated to all of the breweries, wineries and meaderies of the products I've consumed during the process :-) Oh, and all of the chocolate.