| | Well its been a crazy couple of months. A few weeks ago I gave the oral defense of my thesis (aka 'why I cut gonads out of things') to a room full of family, friends, peers and professors and it was terrifying and fun and I passed!!! Yippee. My parents then whisked me off to AZ for a while to relax and enjoy their new digs. Then I had to get ready to present my research again in Canadia last weekend, which was rainy and also lots of fun. I felt half at home there. The half that says "eh" a lot. Now I'm trying desperately to get my thesis edited and submitted before the next part of life takes over...
Today was my last work day at home in my comfy little apartment, drinking tons of tea, typing away on my paper and furiously trying to finish the thesis. I've been doing that pretty much nonstop since August, but starting Monday I'm quitting science!! Ok, so not entirely...I'm starting my new job down in Oakland working for a regional branch of NOAA, which is basically the part of the federal government that works on ocean stuff. I'm gonna do marine policy, so I get to be the middleman who supplies scientific information to people who need it in order to take care of the ocean's resources. Should be interesting I hope!
To give a broad overview of life lately, this has been the most challenging and stretching year of my life and it'll be interesting to see if the next one calms down at all or is more of the same. I feel like life until now has been partly sleepwalking and suddenly I got hit upside the head and told to wake up. Growing up is crazy sometimes eh? One thing I know for sure: I'm really happy to be staying here in the SF Bay area, which was 80 degrees today, in the middle of November. Can't beat that. In fact, I'm gonna go sleep on my porch...right now.
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| | Posted 11/14/2008 11:30 PM - 31 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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