This week, I'm thinking...
- That starting to wear contact lenses at 51 (and some) is a bit of a challenge
- That my eyes are a little uncertain about this whole "putting something solid in them" thing
- How nice it is, though, not to have to keep taking reading glasses on and off and on and off and on and off and...
- That it'll also be nice not to have to be carrying reading glasses up to the podium during speaking engagements
- and dropping them off the side of the podium
- because podiums are always oddly angled
- and usually way too small
- and made for tall men
- and I hate podiums
- and I always leave my glasses up there afterwards and have to retrieve them later
- so wearing contacts will at least decrease some amount of chaos in my life
- How good it feels to be done with classes altogether
- That, on the flip side, I already miss the academic camaraderie of my cohort
- who I won't see in person again for a long time
- until we graduate, probably
- and some of my original cohort is no longer part of my cohort
- because some have dropped out
- and some have changed programs
- and some had life happen and are now graduating later than planned
- so we're down to about half of what we started with
- and I still miss the ones we started out with
- so I know I'll be missing the ones I finish with even more!
- but that makes me sad
- so I'm not going there for now
- How nice it is to have my thesis proposal approved with no revisions required (woot!)
- How much I'll enjoy being able to just hunker down and focus on my own project instead of needing to finish classwork before I can do my own reading
- which means I still have a backlog of my own reading I want to get to
- but I've got a nice long plane ride coming up soon
- so Howard Thurman and Martin Luther King, Jr., are going to be flying with me
- It'll be companionable
- That I'm going to give myself a week off of doing anything school-related first
- and go take Sammy for a canal walk on a beautiful spring day.