All But Dissertation No dissertation--none of the time!
Tuesday, May 06, 2003
As for other totally inconsequential things to blog about, our dog is finally home, after successfully breeding. You would think it wouldn't be that hard, but since both of them were newbies, it took them a while to figure it out. But we're going to have puppies in 50-some days!
Carl, who managed the breeding process, said that most dogs lose weight in the stress of breeding. Ours gained five pounds. But he's moping around, lackluster and dull-eyed, quite unlike himself. We figure he misses his mate. It is so hard not to anthropomorphize animals one lives with ...
Who is the Lady of Shalott?Click here and find out. Why do I call myself the Lady of Shalott?
In addition to being a blogger, I'm a wife, mother, and Ph.D. student specializing in scripture and the Graeco-Roman world, and I'm just a little bit pregnant with a dissertation (but we're not going to talk about the dissertation, are we? No!). In hopes of receiving tenure someday at a university as wonderful as the one I now attend, this blogger will remain resolutely anonymous. Nothing like yards of politically incorrect off-the-cuff statements to derail the tenure track. But we'll have lots of fun anyway.