#EVERY TIME I NEED TO DO REVISIONS THSI HAPPENS

[sentfromwolves]

me: i need to do revisions

my brain, panicking: FIVE HUNDRED NEW WIPS? YOU WANT FIVE HUNDRED NEW WIPS? YOU WANT TO WRITE FIVE HUNDRED NEW WIPS?

[therentyoupay]

Congratulations Kris on your growing alien and being SO close to completing your PHD!!! Do you have any updates to share on everything/anything you have going on? 🥰

HIIIII THANK YOU SO MUCH I LOVE YOU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

I DEFEND MY DISSERTATION IN LESS THAN 20 HOURS AND I AM SO READY I AM SO PREPARED I WANT TO BREAK DOWN THE DOORS OF THE CONFERENCE ROOM AND GET IN THERE AND DO IT RIGHT NOWWWWWWWW

i keep visualizing myself CRUSHING IT, i have practiced my presentation 3-4 times every single day (it's entirely memorized), I CONSTANTLY TALK TO MYSELF ALL DAY as I practice how I might frame my responses to really tough questions, I AM RABID WITH THE NEED TO GET IN THERE AND DO THSI THING BECAUSE I AM SO READY

packing my bag like it's the first day of school! 😂 only I have to also pack things like PEPCID because third-trimester heartburn is REAL and I literally might make a half-joke at the start of my presentation like "if I sound like I am out of breath I promise I'm not gonna pass out it's just that I am currently building a second pair of lungs inside me and shortness of breath is one of the side effects" 😂

SO READY SO EXCITED SO PUMPED

whatever they ask, wahtever comes my way, I know I've already passed and that as of tomorrow I will be able to declare myself preemptively a DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (unofficially until the degree is conferred of course 😉) and I AM SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE DAY, THE WEEKEND, THE HIGH, THE CELEBRATION, THE RELIEF AND SATISFACTION, THE FEELING OF LIGHTNESS OF HAVING SUCCESSFULLY ACCOMPLISHED A GOAL OF 5 YEARS (OF A LIFETIME IF WE'RE BEING HONEST) AND THAT I AM ON MY WAY TO THE NEXT STEPS OF MY LIFE

next week will be all about making revisions and edits to my document based on the committee's feedback and getting the formatting perfecting for the university's standards and THEN AFTER THAT, IT IS TIME TO DO THIS WHOLE CHILDBIRTH AND LABOR AND DELIVERY THING 🤣

also absolutely wild that baby alien will QUITE LITERALLY BE DEFENDING MY PHD DISSERTATION WITH ME..... FROM INSIDE THE WOMB (i'll be wearing a necklace with her initial!!!!)

she kicks like crazy whenever i am practicing so perhaps through osmosis she too will really fall in love with public speaking thanks to her absorption of the cadence of my talk, thanks to the several million practice runs 😂😂😂😂😂????

LITERALLY AS LONG AS SHE DECIDES TO COOK FOR A BIT LONGER AND I AM ABLE TO SUBMIT MY DISSERTATION COMPLETED MANUSCRIPT FROM HOME (as opposed to a hospital) I SHALL BE PLEASED 🤣 obviously I want her in there a little longer so I can keep cooking up her bones and lungs and BRAIN AND THINGS, but I look down several times a day and am like "girl I need you to just stay put until like mid-march, okay, we got things TO DO"

also i'm desperate to write snow globe and show you all exactly what happens when jack goes to new york 😂

IT IS AN AMAZING TIME TO BE ALIVE Y'ALL AND THIS IS LITERALLY ONLY THE BEGINNING, I LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ASK, HAVE AN AMAZING DAY AND I SHALL REPORT BACK TOMORRRRRROOOWWWWWWW

AS A

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

SCREECHES