dissertation research - day 1

just the title of this post depresses me. oh my... here I am in grad services with a little stack of books. I'm starting small - just four hours - can I do it? My advisor seems to think I'm a little unfocused. I'm supposed to familiarize myself with my field. After I pick a field, that is...

well, at least we passed!

Here's us, celebrating PASSING. We're PASSERS. If we get our forms in on time, we'll be "doctoral candidates"! Sounds impressive, doesn't it? I thought so.

I wish I could say my absence in the blogosphere was due to more interesting circumstances, but I just have a really slow dial up internet connection and so I never update it. Matt was in Sweden and the Netherlands for about 10 days. I wrote a paper for an incomplete. (now completed.) Yeah, I'm fascinating. I know. :)