Graduation pics added. Bring on the Forks.

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:09 pm

Wait, do we actually get to stick a fork in Baakay?

Lynxa · Post by **Lynxa** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:53 pm

I hope so, otherwise I'm in trouble!!!

hobbywhelmed · Post by **hobbywhelmed** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:15 pm

Put down the cutlery and step away from the Baakay!

:kamehameha:

klet · Post by **klet** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:41 pm

kymaera wrote:So, I spent the next week pulling ~20 hour days to get it done. I remember
one night when I was sleeping. I was dreaming that I was still working on
my thesis. I woke up and I was lying on my back with my hands in front of
me and fingers moving like I was typing.

Just remember that I'm laughing with you . . .

That's soooo great that you're finally done.

I've got another two years . . . probably some time after that, too.

Maybe I should decide on a direction for my life . . .

Yeah, you know you passed!

p.s. If someone wants to stick a fork in Kay, I'll stick a fork in kymaera and he can pass it on the next time he goes to visit.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:29 pm

Lynxa wrote:Yaaaaaay!!!

About danged time ya wench We don't have to call you "Master Baakay" now, do we??

Oh well hey, if that were the case you'd have had to be calling me that all along. Now I'll just have TWO sets of funny marks after my name instead of one. MLS in 1992, MS (we hope) in 2006. And the bachelor's was in 1979. If I hadn't wimped out on the law degree I woulda had one per decade.

Can you say: "glutton for punishment?" suuuure you can.

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And MY recurring dream is always that I've signed up for a history class that has about twenty gynormous books as required reading. Sometime around "too late to do squat" in the semester I realize I haven't been to class all semester, and when I try to drop the class (via a dial-up, ancient modem computer) I can't successfully dial all the numbers in the right sequence FAST enough to get into the system and drop the class. So I end up with a fail on my record.

Or... I get a letter that I never finished a paper I was supposed to write for "Alas, my ass, Suzanne!" (library school prof) and they're revoking my first Master's.

Gack.

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Further comment: ACK! I"VE BEEN FORKED!

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which actually is kind of a neato segue to:

An aside: When Nate was getting ready to commence being a doctor of thinkology a couple of years ago, the girls were quite amused and ran around the house chanting "Dr. Daddy and Master Mommy!" Well now, my buddy Steve, the music librarian, got ahold of that and turned me BEET RED by suggesting the scenario of Master Mommy in leather with a whip....

(probably because it sounded like such a good idea!!)

Thanks for all the props, everyone!! I hope I'm going to actually revert to my pre-insanity level of neuroticism now!

shellie · Post by **shellie** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:36 pm

You are SUCH a wise woman, Kay! And knowing when to call it quits shows you are indeed smarter than some people who finished those PhDs and died shortly thereafter.

Congratulations on gaining that second Masters... it's always nice to have a spare.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:44 pm

shellie wrote:You are SUCH a wise woman, Kay!

So... you're saying I'm a wiseguy, is that it?

shellie wrote: Congratulations on gaining that second Masters... it's always nice to have a spare.

We'll pass the 'gratz for sure when I hear whether I passed. I think I did, but you never know.

The worth of having of the extra is more true than you know. If we ever need to move, it might get me a job -- lots of academic libraries will only tenure people who have an MLS *and* a second master's. So... yeah, I'll be in a much better position to set myself up to work for 20 more years or so

Goldknight · Post by **Goldknight** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:46 pm

You Go Girl!!!

kymaera · Post by **kymaera** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:38 pm

klet wrote: p.s. If someone wants to stick a fork in Kay, I'll stick a fork in kymaera and he can pass it on the next time he goes to visit.

Yeah. Like I could get THAT past airport security these days. Heck...they'd
bludgeon me to death just for a spoon, I think.

Oh..and in honor of the "stick a fork in me" theme, I present Baakay with
this image she should enjoy:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/k ... a_fork.jpg

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:51 pm

That's friggin' great news Kay! I know you did well, stop worrying

thezelgoddess · Post by **thezelgoddess** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:07 am

Late to the party again... :/

CONGRATULATIONS!

Gah. I just graduated in May-- I do know what it's like to go without sleep for 6 straight months killing myself on a final project. Yet I can't even imagine what you've just gone through! O.O

Please, PLEASE take yourself to some resort and spend a minimum of 48 hours at a spa, preferably having others move your limbs for you (Crispin and I escaped to Palm Springs for a weekend after graduation, and we did a warm-pool watsu session-- it's amazing, and good for the soul!).

Your body needs some serious R&R. Make sure it gets it!

I'm very happy for you! Again, congrats! ^_^

!zzy

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:08 pm

hobbywhelmed wrote:getting ready for class, going, and getting there late and finding out the class had been moved to a secret location....

Hey, I've had that one too!!!!

I spend the entire dream running around campus trying to find it, and find it just in time for the final exams to be handed in.

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:34 pm

kymaera wrote: Oh..and in honor of the "stick a fork in me" theme, I present Baakay with
this image she should enjoy:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y128/k ... a_fork.jpg

Ok THAT is PRICELESS!!

... and I probably ought to tape my virtual mouth shut right there

Izzy! Hot springs! What an idea!!!

I have to admit though that doing the comps was much less strenuous than the school year that ended last december (when I was trying to do 3 classes per semester plus my job. That was what almost killed me). This was more a "let's see... can I remember ANYTHING about this material a year down the road?"

Stressful enough, to be sure... but mercifully brief.

Now I can revert to being the numbskull who can't remember the names of any of the characters in any of my favorite anime.

Oh, except for that blue guy... who was he again? *grin*

monkeyboy · Post by **monkeyboy** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 11:10 am

Baakay wrote:

.. and I probably ought to tape my virtual mouth shut right there

Well...

I could always move this thread to the speakeasy!

Then we could all have fun "pinning" the tail on that image.

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da monkey!

Not Sir Phobos · Post by **Not Sir Phobos** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:17 pm

I just finished searching my desk at work, and sadly.....all I have is a spork.

Baakay, PREPARE TO BE SPORKED!!!!!