Seven Red

So it’s been a big month over at the Seven Red household, as may have been noticed by our two and a half readers based on virtual non-activity on this blog. So here’s the news from Seven Red Land:

1) topspun finally, finally, finally defended his dang dissertation. Now, most people say “Huh? I thought you already did that!” Well, no. I hadn’t. It was a long and painful slog, not helped by a variety of factors that I don’t feel much like going into like, ever again. Life got in the way. Other things. My own insistence on doing it right the way I wanted to. But that’s done now, and I’m not really in the mood to apologize for it taking so long, to myself or others. In the end, it came out better than if I had kept to the route (and the chapters) that I had in the Spring of 2007, and I can live with it. During this whole long and – wait, did I say “painful?” – process, the worst days were the last day of each month. I’d go to bed on the last day of each month saying “There’s another month that I told myself I would be finished by, and here we are.” That’s the gut check time: lights out and alone in the dark with that burden. But on the last day of last month, I had submitted what I was going to submit. And on the last day of this month I can go to sleep without that hanging question hovering there in the dark. I’m going to sleep like a baby. Well, maybe not like a baby, but you feel me.In any case, it’s now time to take up the projects that have had to go on the back burner while this thing was eating away at my soul. I also have a new motivation to guide me: vendetta. I’ll leave that a mystery for now.

2) Bigger and more importantly, Seven Red – as so many facebook messages have indicated – is expecting another baby in April. babygirldos or babyboy, we’ll know (for the most part) on Tuesday, when we get the big twenty week sonogram. Let the gendering begin! We are, of course, thrilled and scared and wondering how we’re going to manage it all, but mostly thrilled (and scared). More on Tuesday.

3) Despite the near collapse of on of the nation’s Giant Financial Institutions, she (who works for said Giant Financial Institution) has thus far managed to keep her job, and also successfully completed her First Graduate Class (thanks for the tuition, Employer Institution!). As our friends who we had over for Thanksgiving said, full time job in an industry in crisis, a two and a half year old at home, four months pregnant, and still manages to ace her first class in ten (or so…) years! Not effing bad. If I don’t say it enough: you rock, baby!

So, all-in-all a good month. Seven Red is all smiles. Oh, and there’s also that little thing called Barack Fucking Hussein Obama getting elected President of these United States. After an awful October, and an awful eight years, it is a sweet November.

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