nerd day

The week of homecoming (for some reason) means that each day is a dress-up day. My kids LOVE this, particularly nerd day. Jordan is sporting Parker's pokemon shirt, suspenders, and her very own UIL gold medal. I'd have to say that even though we try to conform to basic aesthetic standards of dress and grooming, the members of my little family are nerds at heart. We heart nerd-dom.

For myself, I got my nerd on at A&M today. I met one of the professors on my committee for "coffee," which for me means a big ole' Diet Coke. This particular professor is a person I admire greatly, AND I love to hear her take on theoretical issues, so I knew talking to her about my dissertation would be a shot of creative and academic energy...and it was. I want to be just like her when I grown up. (I suspect she's maybe five years older than me.) Being a late bloomer can be tough.

In actuality my entire committe is filled with women I admire and who make me want to work harder and succeed in this profession. I feel both lucky and grateful to have such great intellects "on my side," as it were. Talking with them does tend to soothe my troubled soul in terms of WILL I BE ABLE TO FINISH THIS PROJECT? and if so WILL I BE ABLE TO GET A JOB? I use all caps because that's how they sound in my head. I realized today I've been working towards this end since Jordan was in 4th grade. Ummmm...she's graduating this year. Of course, I write all of this here on my blog so that next week, when I'm biting my fingernails down to the quick in anguish...I can reread this and remember "the good times."

Have I told you I'm working on giving up food as my main method of self-soothing?

It's a total bummer.

Comments

[rebecca ellis]

One of our latter-day prophets made this statement. " Those things that we persist in doing become easier, not because the task becomes easier, but because our ability to do it increases."

[Aunt Mary]

Well Sarah, Rebecca gave you grandmother, I'll give you me. Ain't nothin' soothin' about starvation!