fml???

what a day its been! 

first let me say that in general if something unfortunate is going to happen, it will likely happen to me. i have numerous examples of this and they can be provided upon request. the latest blunder involves my thesis. 

to begin with lets just say i got started a little later than most as far as topic picking and proposal defending, but anyone who knows me knows that i pride my self on last minute triumps. despite the ridiculous amounts of stress i put myself under, i usually do ok. 

the beginning of feburary i finally get my dataset in after successfully defending my proposal to a less-than enthusiastic committee. (heres an example of my bad luck: the day of my defense I get there early and mj--my committee chair--gives me her key to open the conference room door, where ill be giving my presentation. when i go to open it the lock wont turn. feeling like an idiot i sheepishly stand waiting for someone else to come along. lets just say 5 different ppl try their "master" keys to no avail. finally the maintenance guy proclaims that in all his yrs here he has never seen anything like this. they are going to have to call a locksmith....finally through some act of god, after i promise him my soul and anything else he wants, the door magically opens. i started 30 mins late because of it but oh well)

so after getting my dataset im super excited about starting. i start but the variables wont import--my sas knowledge isnt fab but i know enough to get variables in. well turns out its a prob with the dataset. of all the fing cd's i get the one thats fucked up. it takes them forever to get back to me and now i discovered even more problems. they said they can have the corrected version ready in two weeks. in two weeks i was planning to have the whole thing written and defended. so now i will have 2 days for analysis and 10 days to write the thing then get a draft to my committee. they will have 3 days to get it back to me and i have 2 days to make the corrections and create the presentation that will decide if i graduate or not. 

FML.

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