I was born to love you…with every single beat of my heart
(I’ve been listening to Queen obsessively lately, hence the post title 
- it really has nothing to do with anything)
Every once in a while, I get a glimpse of the end of the line, the big finish, the grand finale of grad school known as graduation or hooding or thesis defense or getting the heck out of here… today I was talking with my boss at our regularly scheduled weekly meeting and as we were wrapping things up, he casually mentioned that I should, when I have a moment (:lol:), outline my second paper (now that the first one is solidly in the works), what I want to include, what experiments I need to do to show what I want to show, etc… oy! While you’re only really required to have one paper to graduate (a first authorship that is), its much more acceptable to the department (and your boss!) if you have several, or at least some in the works by the time you graduate. Now this brings me no closer to graduating in reality (as its just outlining what I NEED to show for a paper), but its really the first time Dan and I have ever broached the subject (even broadly) of my finishing my PhD work. And this on the day that the first year student who I mentored while she rotated through our lab came and talked to Dan today about her potential projects now that she’s officially chosen our lab for her thesis work! How crazy that I was in that exact same position, scared out of my mind about talking to Dan, just 3 years ago! Some days I feel like I’m right back there at the beginning, that I’ve barely progressed at all, that I’m still making messes everywhere and not understanding anything… and then someone will ask me something, and I’ll think, ‘I actually know the answer to that!’… and then I know that I’m getting closer, that I’m certainly not there yet, but I’m definitely getting closer…
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I say celebrate every moment of progress! That’s how you get from A to B - one step at a time, right?
Comment by Bethany — April 20, 2006 @ 3:42 pm
keep on keepin’ on same birthday friend.
Comment by scott — April 21, 2006 @ 10:20 pm
thanks guys! hehehe
:highfive: for April Fools babies!
Comment by drea — April 21, 2006 @ 10:31 pm
[...] So as admitted in a previous post, I am a big fan of Queen’s music - this addiction is enabled by my brother (who, when asked what category Queen belongs in, says, ‘the best band EVER’ ). So I was listening to my Queen playlist on the way home to Charlotte today, and I was thinking about why I like their music so much. It’s not cause it’s especially profound (any more than any other rock/pop music of the 70s/80s), or that it’s especially good vocal performance (though I do like Freddy Mercury’s voice). I think I like it for the same reason that I like Meatloaf’s music: each song is like a mini-musical, oftentimes encompassing a huge span of emotions or time or life events. Meatload’s ‘Paradise by the dashboard light’ covers the dissolution of a very dysfunctional relationship, and Queen’s ‘Barcelona’ is almost operatic (helped by the fact that Freddy sings with an opera singer ) in its soaring phrases and intense emotions. And the brutal honesty of the songs just draws me in and takes me along for the ride - and even if I don’t completely agree with the idea behind some of the songs (I’m thinking of ‘I was born to love you’, which I love, but I somewhat disagree with the whole idea of there being ‘only one person in the whole world for each person’…), I get totally sucked into the emotions of the songs. [...]
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