I have biggish news. The Bitches know, but I thought I'd share with the whole board.

Yesterday I finished my senior honors thesis--three WHOLE days early! This is BIG. And the best part? It's actually a good, interesting, well-written, and a potentially influential thesis, completed with quite a big chunk of original work. I am thrilled. Actually, I am beyond thrilled. I am ecstatic.

I wrote about the process in my Beauty and the Bug blog entry for this week (some of you may have noticed that my weekly blog has been on hiatus for about a month thanks to so much school work). You can find that entry here: [link]

As the blog entry notes, I will be posting a link to the complete work for those who are interested in reading it. It's a short 32 pages (including cover page and works cited pages) :). So, check back mid next week to see me prove my point! (Yes! She not only has a point, but she proves it!)

I am more than a little excited about all of this, so I wanted to share with everyone I know.

Due to the evil influence of the House of Reason, I have become addicted to Mighty Leaf Tea. As a result, I have decided to purge my former tea collection--lots of unopened herbals, greens, Earl Grey packets etc. If anyone would like them, email me and I will box the lot up and send them to you. Profile addy good.

ETA: The tea has been claimed.

If you still want to see that episode of Merv Griffin's Crosswords that I taped it should be on tomorrow (Monday).

Calling all fans of Gilbert and Sullivan and/or me! For a recent medical writers conference, I wrote and directed a musical skit based on The Mikado. As it extols the virtue of the serial comma, I thought Buffistas would get a kick out of it. I was fortunate enough to get the whole performance on video; it's fifteen minutes long.

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Calling all Boston/Somerville-istas! I'm going to be in Boston May 6 and May 7 for a training course and would love to get together for dinner and fun one of those nights. It looks like I'll be on the south side, just east of Boston Common. Interested parties should plan in the F2F thread!

Finally, the long ago aforementioned new house picspam!

I'm home!

(And thanks to the many many Buffistas who helped make it so, through direct and indirect support. You are made of win!)

Could I get some strength and peace~ma for my sister-in-law, nephew and family? Her sister passed away today. She was the kindest, sweetest, most genuine person I've ever known and we are all going to miss Kathy very, very much.

Releasing the health-ma back into the buffistasphere. My friend's fiance had an exploratory surgery on his leg that came back negative for any bone infection, so he's been released at least a day earlier than expected. I didn't get a chance to see my friend in person, but it was for the best possible reason that I didn't see her. So yay!

I-don't-need-a-root-canal~ma would be appreciated in 30-90 minutes.

After 8:30 tonight I'll be mostly dark as one of my bffs is coming in for the weekend.