Here's the highlights of what I did last week:

• Went to first grown-up professional conference and co-presented first presentation. Already talked about that, sort of. Went reasonably well.


• Had phone interview with Prominent Rhetorician about possibly entering the PhD program he directs. As far as I could tell, it also went pretty well. It turns out that he's working on the same topics that I am, and his wife is working on the same area that Mister Boyfriend is. The program sounds like it would be a good fit. (But so do a couple of other programs. We'll see.)


• Won University Teaching With Technology Award in the category of Best Practices with the professor I teach Nonfiction Writing with. There was some money that came with that.


• Turned in second draft of thesis proposal. Hopefully, there will only be one more to go before I defend. (We'll see about that, too.)


• Went to Oklahoma. Came back.


• My grandfather moved to the retirement community. I had very little to do with that, but it still sort of rocks my world.

It's odd to read back over this, because normally my week consists of: Go to School, Come Home, Teach, Read, Write. This week, things happened all at once. Odd, but possibly convenient. Maybe all this stuff got bunched up into this week so that the next month will be clear enough that I can plow on through to the end of the semester.