Celebration

Happy dancing with you, Kharyssa. Good going!

YEA, KHARYSSA!!! IT'S OVER WITH AND YOU DID IT!!! WAY TO GO!!! ALRIGHT!!! WOO-HOO!!! HIP, HIP HOORAY!!!

I just finished my dissertation outline for my defense on Tuesday. I can hardly wait.

Congrats, Sandra! Good luck, and will be sending lots of good vibes your way TOMORROW!!!!!

Lots of luck to you Sandra! Stay cool and always know when to say "I don't know'. -k-

Congratulations Sandra !!! Good luck to you !! Let us know how it goes !

Sandra-- That's Great! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow and sending good vibes! Every good wish from here, Barb

Sandra, Thank you so much for checking in with us. You have helped me keep-on-keeping- on regarding my stats and now I know there is light at the end! Have a good night sleep (I find celestial tea with honey works well)and please let us know how it went. Ellen

Thank you thank you thank you. I've had a horrible headache all day. It is snowing (of course) but it should clear by tomorrow. I talked to my advisor today and he was very positive. I just want it to be over. To keep myself busy tonight I came home to build a fire in the fireplace thinking "busy hands are happy hands" and I wouldn't end up picking on my husband the dogs, etc. So what did I do? I didn't move the blanket in front of the doors and while I was outside getting more fire wood my husband smelled the burning and snatched up the blanket before anything serious happened. We decided I could keep the fire going as it was safer than anything else I could think of doing. I"ll check in afterwards, and who would have thought I would thank my stats member for the "exercise" but I definitely know my stats and I am not worried about explaining them. You should all know that on my final reading this weekend I found Figure 2 to be a copy of Figure 1. I printed off new copies and will insert those into the committee's copies before we begin tomorrow. Does faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and something about a train come to mind? TH nk you THank you THank you for being there! Barb & Ellen I feel like I know you...CarolR, Kharyssa, we have been through a lot together, Jomama & Nell your good wishes are much appreciated. I wouldn't be here if it was for the friends I have made on this board.

Sandra YOU GO GIRL! You'll be great! (As long as you don't build a fire for the committee, big grin!) I usually only cause great backdrafts when I go out for more wood, we heat with a wood stove and in the fall/early winter I ahve to learn it all over again every year!;) Chrissie

Sandra- I am sending out good vibes to you for tomorrow. GOOD LUCK, but I am sure that you won't need it because you have skill!!! Samantha

Sandra: Although I had already sent you good luck wishes, I am sending you more. What time are you presenting your dissertation at, I want to send you extra good vibes, and of course, my prayers. good luck again, Jo Ann

They called me Dr. It was wonderful...the process was tedious. My advisor expected to go an hour and half. The outside chair set the format (none of us knew him) and remember I only got a chair at the final hour, I didn't know his name in time to put him in the acknowlegements. He said two hours with 20 minutes for follow-up. The first hour went by and the second hour was like beating a dead horse, at the end one member asked about the last statement on the last page. She didn't agree, I read it and cou dn't put it into context. My advisor bless his heart, refered to higher up the page, to the subtitle( implications for further study) and I got back on track. Right at 3:00 he drew it to a close, I stepped out of the room and he came to get me in 5 minutes and called me Dr. I am now looking for 100% cotton 20 lb. paper to do my final copy. Thank you all for your advice, good wishes, support, and empathy. More than anything I wanted to see my name on this board along with all the others because it can b done with caring, support, and celebrations of the triumphs! Yea, it is over!!! To those still working, if I can do it YOU can do it. You can make mistakes, send an email to your committee person by mistake and recover, you can redo and rewrite, and call em on "it", and succeed. Don't give up. Yea!

Dr. Sandra-- That is so wonderful! I am so pleased for you! Sounds like a grueling couple of hours (geeze, but that sounds LONG!)--but also sounds as though your advisor came through for you. Gosh. I'd have had a hard time keeping my cool with the chair who came on board at the last minute. Good for you for staying "calm, cool, and collected"! (I sound like the old Katie Winters commercial for Ice Blue Secret deodorant--lost in the Fifties again, that's me). Anyway, HOORAY FOR SANDRA! YIPPEE! GOODY GOODY! I'm doing a virtual dance for you, Doc! By the way, I thought folks might be looking for your post-defense post on the new-old PhinisheD board, just up (click on the URL Amy's put up on the first screen of THIS board and it'll take you there). So I took the liberty of telling them to look here. But you might wanna post over there, too. Your news surely bears repeating! Barb

Dr. Sandra, I am going to post congrats to you on both boards. You have PhinisheD! They made you work for it right up to the end but what an accomplishment. I bet it feels wonderful. Keep on checking in here and sending pearls of wisdom...we can use them. CHEERS..CHEERS..CHEERS! Ellen