Dissertation. Blahsertation. Adultertation.

Semester is over with.  No more grading.  No more students.  No more lecturing.  I should be relaxing after a busy year, but this week I have been busier than ever.  You see, being somewhat adult does have its consequences.  My consequence – not being done with the dreaded dissertation.  ugh… just hearing the word dissertation makes me cringe.

A week ago I was thinking about alternate career choices so I don’t have to finish writing the thing I shall not name.  Below are some of the options I came up with:

• Photographer
• Phone sex operator
• Publix cashier
• Etsy seller (not sure what I would sell though)
• Dog trainer
• X-ray technician (I read somewhere that it is a decent paying gig but you don’t need a fancy degree)
• Lottery winner
• Professional blogger
• Wedding planner
• Cake decorator (going back to my DQ days)

What could you see me doing as a career???

I know, I know… you are saying, “Just finish the damn thing and you won’t have to worry about changing careers!”  And this week I have been busy in the attempt to finish up some of the loose ends.  I’ve watched Season 1 of Lie to Me, Season 2 of Heroes, and working on Season 3 of Heroes.  I need background noise and other things while I work, so it was for the better.  But needless to say, in a matter of 5 days, I pulled 2 all nighters, stayed away for 42 hours straight, and pushed out the first four chapters of my dissertation.  Granted, most of it was already written, but there was a lot of revising I had to do, along with formatting tables and blah blah blah-sertation.  But I feel good about where it is going.  I just hope my committee feels good about it as well…