Life is better now. I met with my thesis advisor yesterday, who has unfortunately become my sun and moon. She says it’s okay if I want to extend my thesis into the first part of the summer. I have been so excited and squirrelly about the idea of not rushing to put my name on a piece of crap that I haven’t been able to work much all morning. The drag is that I have to pick up extra classes to qualify for financial aid. I was so afraid my thesis advisor was going to skin me, but she really can be very reasonable.

I am reapplying for financial aid loans for the summer, which I will get. I have this crazy, crazy plan to do all my homework this month, so May can be all about thesis writing. My methodology chapter is 99% done, the introduction (literature review) is most of the way there, so now I just have to deal with data analysis and my results.

I think I am out of survival mode now. Winter quarter was a deplorable wash, because I could barely keep up from day-to-day. But my brain is getting back online, so to speak, and I am starting to enjoy doing research again.

School is just stressing me out in general. I have been turning papers in early, so one of my professors was all disorganized and did not put my paper in the right folder on his computer. He called me out in class, saying that he had not received papers yet from six people, and gave a very obvious wink right at me. Of course I wasn’t paying attention, so someone was like, “ooh, SJ.” I snapped up and lamely declared that I had turned my paper in. He continued to pick on me throughout the class, and I said I was going to leave during the break, which everyone laughed at. So here I am, in my office, typing away. Take that, professor-who-would-rather-not-have-me-in-class-anyhow. I showed him.