Developments

The dissertation defense is tomorrow, so I'm rereading the whole thing today and writing up an outline for my presentation tomorrow. 10:30-12:30. I will of course let you know how it went. I'm a little stressed out, but HD has assured me that I need not worry too much, and I think it'll go okay. We'll see tomorrow. If they say I have only a couple more months work (or less), I'm golden.

In other news: you know how I said that although I knew there were other women in the world, I couldn't possibly even conceive of anyone who could be as good for me as J? Well, that was true. Now it's not. I hesitate to say much more than that. I still love and miss J, of course, but for both our sakes I'm in the process of letting go as much as possible. And I have recently met someone so incredibly well-suited to me that it's almost scary. I'm very wary and very cautious still at this point, but I will let you know more if and as it develops.