After a busy week, I have been able to relax and enjoy the weekend. Friends Suzie and Rachel were in town and brought their 5-month old son, Jackson. We spent the afternoon hanging out and doing errands, which was a lot of fun - like old times when they lived here. After enjoying dinner with Jan, we went to the ISU charity drag show. This was my third drag show and probably my last one at ISU. It was also little Jackson's very first drag show, and so we celebrated the event with a family photo. Unfortunately, the noise was a bit much for him, so the mommies took turns walking with him in the lobby. I did manage to catch a smile from him before the event started though.
Here's a shot the the emcee for this year, Miss Sharon Sharealike. Here is Sharon doing her emcee thing. We only stayed through the first half, but it was a great show. I was particularly fond of the rendition of "My Heart Will Go On" by Lauren Alexander. She was able to hilariously sum up the entire movie Titanic in a 3-minute song/act. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.
Some good news on the dissertation front. 2/3 readers are ready to go to defense. I'm just waiting for my director to give me revisions and/or tell me he is also ready to go to defense. I have a few minor corrections to make based on one reader's reading of the latest version, but I'm not too worried about that. I also submitted my draft to the Graduate School for format check (even though I'm not officially done-done). All they are doing is making sure the format is right. I'm sure I'll have to make some changes there too. I meet that with format woman on Tuesday.
I'm also gearing up for my trip to Washington DC for the Writing Project's spring meeting. I fly Wednesday and will return home on Monday. Ken and Mom are flying out too and meeting me on Friday after I'm done with my meetings. I should have some good pictures when I come back. I'm excited to go, but also a little sad as this will very likely be my last trip out there for Writing Project matters. There are a lot of "last time" things happening lately...last drag show, last WP trip. Though I want to finish, I am also getting sad when I think about all of the changes.
Still no word on jobs. I continue sending out applications, etc. Please keep your fingers crossed.
2 comments:
Yay! We made your blog! Jackson looks amazed/surprised/shocked in his picture. Good times... And congrats on the diss!!!!!!!!!!Yay!!!!!!
Of course! What a cutie Jackson is, I swear! I like to think that he's just smiling happily in the picture. I should post the one you took of him and me.
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