groat

foot

road

grown

I think Tricky has stumped the panel!

So--a new word!


Brown

goad

Maybe its not too late to change my thesis to Law of the Sea? Or perhaps that should be PhD number 2?

http://www.blogthings.com/thejackolanternquiz/


What Your Jack-o-Lantern Says
You are a gleeful, exuberant person.
You enjoy a good party, and you even enjoy a good brawl.

This Halloween, there is no question what you should be... a pirate!
The candy you should give out: peanut butter cups


I did not make this up. It says I should be a pirate at Halloween!!!!!!!!!! The pirate obsession continues. Or maybe its more profound than that........? :p

I think this is a common experience, and it can be very disheartening. I tried looking for groups outside of the univeristy altogether to join, that had some sort of intellectual focus. I like creative writing ( which has nothing to do with my PhD!) so I found a local writer's group to join that meets weekly. I found the change of focus and change of pace, and a new set of faces altogether refreshing. Can you go to cross-departmental events and see if there might be anyone there with whom you share research interests, or even other interests? I am thinking of trying to start up a book club, that meets once a month, where you discuss the book being read. That "gives" you something in common to start with, and through that might find other links or common interests. Does your university have something like that?

I can very much relate to how you feel, until recently, I was wondering if I was in fact pursuing some kind of odd career path as a hermit, that was only packaged up as doing PhD research. Hang in there, you may yet meet someone that you feel congenial with. Just put yourself in the path of opportunity by doing a few new or different things!

You know you have lost the plot when this is the view you think you have from your office/study area window........its what I see when I look outside!

http://www.beachhousefl.com/images/Pirate_ship6.jpg

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Olivia is looking over the help wanted ads in Key West, Florida, contemplating a much different existence, and listening to Jimmy Buffet music, and weighing the option of going blind typing footnotes over putting her feet in the sand and watching the sunset over the sea, with a nice drink in her hand, and the palm trees swaying, and some Key Lime pie ready for dessert.......hmmm!

This is the current view from the window of Olivia's PhD office......http://www.beachhousefl.com/images/Pirate_ship6.jpg

soon

bound

good

Olivia has just written 1,000 words this morning and is in a very contrary mood....wanting to go into iconoclastic mode...... hmmm.... maybe Olivia just needs more coffee...and trying to be mellow by listening to MOTOWN!