Milestones . . . I guess

As I sit here at work at 5:08 in the morning, desperately trying to stay awake, I'm trying to force my brain to do the kind of thinking that keeps people up. Yesterday turned out to be quite the combo day. In addition to being my birthday, it was the day that I finally washed my hands of my thesis: I officially submitted it to the library in hard copy for binding. In the process of accomplishing this awesome day I managed to forget to work in my typical afternoon sleep installment. Thus my skull feels like it is approximately triple it normally enormous dimensions. Indeed, my forehead feels extra heavy this morning.

I've been trying to reflect on the experience that was writing a thesis. I think I'm still a little too close to it. It hasn't even really sunk in that I'm done with it. Nevertheless, I am yet again entering one of those transition times in my life that I often find myself writing about the uncertainty of the future. I feel like I have officially raised my own bar at this point, and that it is going to be harder to continue to impress myself.

At this point my only resolution is to do absolutely nothing constructive for a little while. But since my blog has been notoriously neglected while I was writing my thesis, I thought that I should write a little something here before blogspot deleted my account. I look forward to hopefully posting on here more than once a year for a while. Perhaps my research exhausted brain will slip back to its old ways.