dissertation proposal

I turned in a draft of my dissertation proposal to my adviser on Wednesday. It was still very much a draft but at least I had some of my ideas down in written form. (It's much later than I hoped to have it done, but still okay since my ultimate goal is to have it finished by the end of the semester.)

In response to this news my dad wrote:

Hi Amelia,

Glad that you've been having a good week. Wednesday night I drove over to Vt and yesterday was a nice spring, sunny, and wam day in the field looking at an old penstock that is scheduled to be replaced this summer. Remember the one Thanksgiving when you went with me to a hydrosite and helped by survey a penstock ? You must have been about 8th grade or so. I still have a picure of you standing in front of the powerhouse.

Glad that you turned in your thesis draft. Even if Dr Mansbach rips it apart with comments its a good step forward.

See you in a few weeks.

love,
dad

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So very much like him, erring on the side of honesty rather than tact :)

My adviser responded with the following:

Friday

Dear Amelia,
Yesterday en route to NYC, I went over your proposal. It is basically quite good; but I think we need to work over a few things (all easy to address). Therefore, we can either meet this coming week, say on Tuesday afternoon. Or I can telephone you and by phone we can go over matters. If the latter, do let me know how best to reach you (and a few "time" options).

Best,
[name title etc]
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Heartening yes? No "major revisions" or "reevaluate your concept". Hopefully we will meet on Tuesday, set a date for the proposal defense within a week or two and keep moving.

shoe update

Shoe issue update: I've still been putting off buying anything until it's actually May (budget thing). The consensus seemed to be purple because you can wear purple shoes with a blue dress and because I seemed to like the purple shoes more. Well I like the color of the purple more, but as shoes I think I like the blue more. Also I won't wear the purple shoes with the blue dress because I want to look at light and airy for the beach and I think a dark color with black details would be too much. But I think you could wear them together with appropriate accessories and that would make the dress wearable into the fall, and I do have more things I can wear the purple with. Plus colorful shoes are awesome--love the idea of purple shoes and a red dress.

I was pretty much decided on getting the blue ones. Then I went and checked back at the websites and the purple ones are gone. So decision kind of made for me.

I hate to be the girl who asks "a or b?" and everyone says b and I say, oh but now I know a. *sigh* Thanks everyone for your feedback :)


ETA: Can I also just say that since I've spent so much time and energy thinking about these shoes that that in itself means I should just go ahead and buy the damn things. :)