"Victory is Mine" She Crowed

I know this is probably only exciting to me and about four other people, but I have sent the revised draft of my current chapter to my committee chair just this last minute ago. Woo hooooo! There were intense moments of severe anxiety as I realized that the changes I had made a few days ago to the draft on computer had for some reason disappeared in their entirety leaving me with a draft from last week, and significant changes NOT THERE.

HOWEVER smart cookie that I am, I had printed up a hard draft of the entire changed version and went through and re-did the changes that had been lost in both the original AND the backup versions of my chapter. I lost probably about an hour's worth of revision, but boy oh boy oh boy am I ever glad that I had that hard copy!!!!!!! I always lecture my students on doing just such a thing, and I love it when I'm right. Now to make a fifteenth or so CD burned backup of all the files completed this far.

If I can get this version approved by my chair & sent off to the rest of the committee before the babies come, then I will be pretty happy. While I'm waiting to hear from her (it usually takes about 2 weeks) I will work on the Buffy chapter, which is about 3/4 of the way done already. But I am almost content. I wanted to get an entire draft of the whole damn dissertation done before the babies came. But more than half of it done is okay by me too. I figure the whole summer will be a wash-- a haze of diapers and sleepless nights-- but as long as the babies cooperate in the Fall, my goal of being a Dr. by NEXT summer will be well in hand. If they don't cooperate in the fall, we may resort to the radical notion of babysitting a few hours a day. I gotta get this done, come hell, high water, or diaper rash.

Anyway. Now to spend the rest of the Saturday afternoon in frivolous, mindless fun of some sort.