Spoiler alerts

I'm at my Nana's right now trying to work on my lit review. I have a section to add that's proving to be uninteresting and a bit of a pain. We're toggling back and forth between movies: A Star is Born and a schmaltzy Christmas movie. Nana is a living spoiler alert. She's seen both movies and is more than happy to pre-narrate events. It's comforting and a little annoying... Maybe we don't always want to know what's going to happen next. Maybe all of my worrying about the future is what's holding me back. Maybe I need to relish in the unknown.

Crying wolf

I'm super tired of trying to be done and keep having to push the date back. I'm looking at a May graduation date if I can get this lit review done and this data analyzed. My goal is to have a draft of the dissertation in before the end of this semester. I don't know if it's doable, but I'm trying.

Here's a list of things I'm going to do when I finish this degree:

Learn how to sew.

Submit fun stuff to a publisher.

Garden more.

Learn French.

Make wine.

Clean the house.

Get a pet.

Drum.

Do more yoga.

Get in shape to do crazy circus stuff.

Knit more.

Do more calligraphy.

Inches

Coding is done. I'm over it. I'm excited to be finished with this step. I actually got a congratulations from my advisor. My computer stopped letting me log on. Exciting too. Pffflt.

I'm reaching back into my proposal and seeing how my data answer my questions. How to analyze. How to align. How to finish as quickly and painlessly as possible.