turn back the clock

My jetlag is awesome. I fell asleep at 8 pm with my clothes on and woke up at midnight wide awake; it's all very entertaining, this internal clock-fuckery. It means I'm not done with your beta, darling torakowalski, since I intended to do the last half tonight. But!

Today was somewhat okay, in terms of thesisness. I have a most adorable and helpful advisor, who keeps being so positive about my mess of a paper that I'm sometimes convinced she's reading a different one than the one I'm writing. At any rate, she told me she goes on vacation July 1st and asked if I want to keep working until then, and I said, "Yes, of course." So we went through the whole thing and she gave me good comments and told me to make an appendix in her very sweet but also pointed way. She's pretty awesome. She also gave me her cellphone number in case I needed anything, which for a Swedish professor is a highly unusual level of personal contact. Do you guys remember my supervisor issues of last year? Ahahaha. Night and day, I tell you.

Also, I have a defense date! October 4th, ladies and gentlemen. It's a ways away, but that's because a couple of the ones who weren't done now need a fair amount of time.

Because I cannot sleep, I will finally do the icon meme.


1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

marksykins gave me these icons:

( my favorite part of paid account-ness )