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I know I should be studying instead of writing this. I know I should be studying instead of watching TV. I know I should be studying instead of eating, sleeping or breathing.
But I just don’t feel like it.
I need some motivation juice…

I’ve finally finished with my coursework at Penn State. Hooray! I took my last class the other day, had the last class meeting. (I still have to take the final exam, but that hardly counts.)
I’ve gotten this far. Now there are the comprehensive exams, and, of course the dissertation, but being through with coursework feels REALLY REALLY good.
It finally feels like I’m getting close to the end of this long journey.

Presented my latest research at a conference in Minneapolis, and received some really nice feedback. It was my first visit to Minnesota. Nice city, but I didn’t see much of it.
I was there for the CIC conference of Big-10 music schools; music education faculty and grad students. I don’t know that the other “athletic conferences” get together within departments. If they don’t, they should. Year after year, you get to see the same professors, getting new and different viewpoints, making contacts and developing friendships with them, and the doc students who will eventually be your colleagues. It’s a great system.