Ok, so I passed my thesis defence…yay.

But now I’m really really sick…boo.

Now what?

Everything is rushing towards a culmination of my thesis defence this Friday…except I hit a roadblock. I got sick. Doh. I did a practice run today with a sore throat, and it didn’t feel good at all. But at least supervisor is saying my presentation is just about set, so nothing much to worry about there. Interestingly enough, I haven’t gotten really sick since last August, which was a great blessing from God. Now I can only try to trust God to get me through all this.

I should be called a bubbleboy now… Background: I was given $5 to play poker online for free, and I used it mostly to enter 9-player sit-and-gos. In these mini tournaments, the top 3 gets paid. And of the 5 times that I played, I finished “at the bubble” (i.e. 4th) 3 times… What can I say? Even when I determined not to finish 4th, I still finish 4th… Oh well, I guess I’ll stop when the free money runs out.

The surprise for yesterday was having Jeff unexpectedly visit me in my office. It was always great when this kind of thing happens, even though it happens very rarely.

I feel like all the slacking off during all my years in the PhD program is going to culminate in my utter failure at the thesis defence next Friday.

I was going to write something entitled “lament of a driver”…but it’s not worth the effort to complain about it.

Thinking about the future, I’m leaning towards not doing anything related to academics, not even teaching. On the other hand, this is probably the only thing I can do… So that’s the paradox of my life.