Taking One for the Team

I got an email from my thesis advisor yesterday, encouraging me to present at the Graduate Research Conference. This was about the third email I've gotten "encouraging me" to present. I've ignored them, because it's not something I really want to do. It may be funny to have phrases like "stop, my butt hurts" (one of the meanings of the word Yaoi) in my thesis. Less funny to have to say them out loud to strangers while doing a power point. However, I read the various responses contained in the email that had been forwarded along, and it all originated from the Dean of Graduate Studies who was extending the deadline for submitting abstracts and personally requesting that someone from Women's Studies presents.

*sigh*

You don't say no to the Dean of your college. Knowing my other classmates, I had a sneaking suspicion none of them planned on presenting, so despite my deep desire not to present, I've decided to "take one for the team" and do it. I will be presenting information from my thesis "Queering the Lines: Women Writing Same-sex Male Couples in Fiction" (at least I think that's my title). The conference is April 7th, I don't have a time for when I will be presenting yet. So if anyone wants to watch me stand up in front of a bunch of academics and talk about masturbation and anal sex... please feel free to show up. Maybe that way I won't notice the dean of my college in the audience.

And the Procrastination Continues

I haven't posted for a few days; I've been very busy. Of course very little of what I've been busy with is thesis related. If it was, I wouldn't be able to claim the title of reigning queen of procrastination. Here is a list of what I've been doing... instead of my thesis:

1.) Watching the History Channel
2.) Making egg salad
3.) Driving to and from the Cities
4.) Going to dinner and a show
5.) Playing D&D
6.) Playing the Sims
7.) Cleaning my apartment
8.) Sitting around thinking about how I need to start my thesis
9.) Throwing a temper tantrum because I got two rejections out of fifteen
10.) Surfing the facepages
11.) trying to contact that guy whose auto part is sitting in my living room.
12.) Writing this post

So as you can see it's been a busy few days. Future procrastination attempts are likely to involve more History channel, grocery shopping, and possibly neopets. I'm continuing to work on my data analysis as well, which has to be done, but is also a bit of a procrastination for actually writing the damned thesis. As an aside post-it notes are actually helpful data analysis tools.