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So it has been about 3 weeks since I last blogged. Bad Becca.

Much has happened, and maybe at some point I'll explain it, but for now I'm just letting that stuff sit on a back burner to talk about in some far off future blog.

As for now, I am sitting in lab, waiting for my samples to get done spinning in their happily chilled 4 degree centrifuge. Hopefully these little guys will appreciate the craziness I've put into their existence in the last 25+ hours and give me some good results. That'd be nice.

Otherwise, well, I'm attempting to come up with more drink recipes for our favorite local coffee shop, so.zo. On the radar: peppermint mocha, peppermint hot chocolate, chai-nog, egg nog lattes, and thanks to the creative thinking of one of our volunteers, chocolate chai. Any coffee lovers out there have any ideas for any other fantastic beverages?

Almost there

Ok. this is it. I am getting ready to venture over to HSC and see what my suture holds. I can tell you this, I am really nervous. More than yesterday, which went very well by the way. I am getting ready to willing walk into a room where there will be 6 PhDs who know a heck of a lot more than I do about anything, and have them interrogate me for a while, send me out of the room so they can talk about my shortcomings for an excruciatingly long time, bring me back in and tell me what they think of me. Most of which will probably be bad. Why am I doing this? Because I'm insane. And for some reason I haven't quit grad school yet...

P-D Day

So today is the day. Well, tomorrow is the day too, but today is the beginning. Proposal Defense Day.

In about 1 hour I will be giving my dissertation proposal defense seminar. Yeah. Can I just say that I wasn't nervous really about it until about 5 minutes ago? Not really so sure why. Hopefully I'll get over it soon. Maybe it's because I sucked at my last presentation a couple weeks ago, so I know what it feels like to give a horrible presentation on the subject now rather than just an ok or good one.

I guess I'll know in a couple hours what the reaction is. Of course I won't have my insane committee meeting until tomorrow at noon. That's when they'll drill me and tell me I suck at life and hopefully that I pass. But today I can see the reaction of the grad students (please don't ask me too many questions guys, and I promise to return the favor to you on your seminar day) and some faculty. Of course the chair of my committee will be MIA... not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.

But until then, I will have to just try to be confident in what I know (or at least think I know).

Oh, and I found out that we will have a tray of cheeses and crackers. On Monday seminar afternoons we get cookies, or brownies, or doughnuts or something. Usually Wednesdays don't get a treat. But today we will have cheese and crackers. It feels kind of formal... not gonna lie. But it gave me a smile when I got the email about it this morning.

Here's to hoping I don't make an idiot of myself today!