katakat.com bytes from a participant observer

This editor has just been updated. Let's see if it works. I just spent at least an hour updating this site behind the scenes. Hope it is still working!

 
First, I'd like to thank all of you who have sent me a card this season. I won't be doing holiday cards this year--I just don't have time or energy. My life can be summed up in just a few words: work and school. For family news: Dom got engaged this year. For more intense details on my life, go to my Facebook page.

 Check out my Jing video: http://www.screencast.com/t/ZGEyOGI1OT

I always see ads like this, usually from Facebook. Check out these two ads, supposedly from two different people:

Ok, with apologies to my fans, I think I've got the blog back up and running. At least the content, anyway. It froze up on me back in March, so  I couldn't add any more posts.  Yes, my life did move on despite the lack of posts.

Yes, it did happen, and I passed the exam. Also, an update on the pigs flying: [sorry the web page I linked this to went away. It was cute, though.]

Mid-January to mid-February was the time for my comprehensive (comps) exam. I had 28 days to complete three questions selected by my comps mentor. It was supposed to test your competency for the field, however, the field being EDUCATION in all its hugeness, the questions covered topics I knew almost nothing about. So I spent most of the time researching. Good to have faculty status at my home institution so I could take the books home from local university libraries!

Wow, it's been a while since I've posted here. Lately I've been really into Facebook, so if you want to check on my almost daily activities, feel free to look there. Most of my family is on there too, which is why I got into it. It's like going from zero to TMI in just a few minutes. Otherwise, I just finished my last class for the doctorate on December 14th. Next is the comprehensive exam, which entails 3 questions, 50 pages of writing, and a lot of time. I'll be taking a month off starting in mid-January to to that.

There's nothing like being a tourist in your own town. Especially when that town happens to be San Diego. There are lots of places to see, and now that it's fall, the main tourist season is over and we locals can get out there and see what all the fuss is about. So the bf and I have been checking out areas of town like Shelter Island, Harbor Island, and Harbor Drive (the piers, Embarcadero, Seaport Village, etc). This past Sunday we did the Midway aircraft carrier, just in time for Veterans Day. The museum was really cool, and so was the weather-- very windy, in fact.