I graduate in two weeks.
It’s a horrifying thought when I count up the “to do” items in my thesis draft, and I haven’t even looked at committee edits yet! My defense is in 11 days, and I’m not yet decided on a title nor do I have an abstract prepared. However, nearly all of my other academic commitments are completed, so I should be able to get my thesis finished in time and a presentation put together for my defense on Tuesday, April 24 at 1:30 PM in 411 West Hall. (Yes, it’s a public defense; you’re invited.)
After graduation, I’m spending a week in San Jose for CHI2007, which will be a good time even if it’s a little longer away from home and hubby for my taste. After CHI, house-hunting in Syracuse will have to be wrapped up fairly quickly. The complications of getting everything in order for home buying are legion, so I just have to trust that everything will work out in time for us to move in late June or early July.
Fortunately, both my employer and my husband’s employer have agreed to set up telecommuting arrangements, which really improves the outlook for the impending relocation. I can continue working for Enlighten through mid-August, while Everett can keep himself busy with work for JSTOR through the end of his project later this year. I’m thanking our lucky stars that we’re both sufficiently valued employees to merit telecommuting. The transition to Syracuse will be difficult enough without the added pressure of immediate employment and income changes, particularly as the hiring processes of academic libraries are notoriously slow, so it may be a while before anything for which Everett has applied actually goes into the interview stages, much less to hiring, by the time we have to move.
I have a long list of scintillating blog posts to write as soon as I’m done writing my thesis. Well, at least the part about having a list of blog post topics is true. I have some pent-up photography-related blogging to come as well; my camera collection has grown significantly in recent months and there are things to be said about that. According to the search queries referring people to my blog, the subjects you’re actually interested in reading about are orthodontia, knitting, and the book by John Seeley Brown to which I make tribute with the blog title “Social Life of Information.” Is that really what you want to hear about?