So, three awesome things that happened recently:
1) I PASSED PRELIMS! How awesomely fantastic is that? I am now, officially, a doctoral candidate. I wanted to have a moment where I went running from the building, skipping as I opened the door, and in slow motion, flinging my notes on statistics, research methods, computational modeling, organizational studies, all of it, up into the air while some rockin' music accompanied me. Instead, I quietly spent an hour today tucking away all my notes back into their respective binders, shelving the binders, and returning borrowed books. You never know when that one equation I wrote down that one day in multivariate statistics MIGHT come in handy. It's the academic in me. Otherwise, a person might say, "That's what Google is for."
2) Trooper learned to retrieve! Like, adequately! When I was first teaching him, I relied on the treat method for the toy replacement, but he'd get so excited about the treat that he would just drop the toy on his way back. This evening I absentmindedly grabbed one of the retrieving toys and brought it out to the front yard when I let him out after dinner. I gave it a good throw, just to run some energy off of him, and BOOM! he took off like a shot. There was a lot of bouncing involved, and Joel is convinced he's more Tigger than Lab, but, holy cow, he brought it right back to me!! Fifteen times in a row!! I was so impressed with my retriever that he had lived up to his name...finally. He's not graceful or coordinated like Cosette is by any means, but he tries. And, he Tigger bounces, so that's a bonus. I think.
3) Strike the third thing. I originally had something here, published it, then changed my mind. Basically, to sum up: I do not like Person A, and Person A is generally liked by others, which is infuriating because it's all a show. There are a few who dislike Person A, but not many. The people who do dislike Person A can usually be found after Person A insults them in a deranged manner, becomes rip-roaringingly drunk, screams at them, asking themselves, "What did I do? I was just trying to be nice!" Person A recently had a social opportunity with many supporters, and revealed their true colors to everyone they were with. Person A is no longer liked by the rest of my social circle. This is awesome because they no longer want to hang out with Person A, and I'm just glad I don't have to worry about being in the same zip code as the person anymore.
To reiterate, I PASSED PRELIMS!!!, my retriever retrieves, and karma is excellent.
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