Eeeeeeee! I am SO pleased — just got the email from my dissertation committee chair that she’s passing my dissertation proposal on as acceptable! Now I can send it on to my other two committee members — and soon: ONwards to dissertation researching and writing! :-D<\/p>\n
Also extremely exciting is what the Chair wrote in her email to me — lovely things that reassure me that I’m not a failure at having taken so long to get this thing done! A few very nice lines that have me doing the happycolliedance:<\/p>\n
You’ve done some exceptional work here!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
and<\/p>\n
You’ve done an incredible job with the breadth of the literature review -truly establishing yourself who has done her homework!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
and best of all:<\/p>\n
Great revisions with the methodology chapter!!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
These are particularly happy-making because I was initially truly worried my lit review chapter and (in particular) my methodology chapter would be sub-par. Yay for busting my chops and finally getting them right!<\/p>\n
Yay also for the extremely yummy chocolate-peanut butter microwave mug cake recipe that a delighted friend dug up for me so I could properly<\/em> celebrate — was tres<\/em> delish, my dear! Sharing so all my friends and sister scholars can enjoy as well when they get to their joyous celebration moments! :)<\/p>\n
\nTwo Minute Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Serves 1<\/em><\/div>\n1 egg<\/div>\n1 Tbsp brown sugar
\n2 Tbsp peanut butter
\n1 Tbsp flour
\n1 Tbsp cocoa
\n1\/4 tsp baking powder
\na small handful of chocolate chips<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn a small bowl stir the egg, brown sugar, peanut butter, flour, cocoa, and baking powder with a fork. Stir in the chocolate chips and pour batter into a greased ramekin or mug. Microwave for 1 minute. Eat straight from the ramekin or mug while dancing around elatedly, or invert onto a plate. Do not attempt elated dancing simultaneously with eating from a plate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eeeeeeee! I am SO pleased — just got the email from my dissertation committee chair that she’s passing my dissertation proposal on as acceptable! Now…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,28,43,32,23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-craftiness","category-dissertation-blues","category-education","category-ma-phd-programs","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5443,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stormtiger.com\/collie\/bestiary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}