With every little bit of thesis stuff handed in, the end draws nearer. I think I'll actually be able to do it.

I'm really looking forward to the play tonight.

I think I'm pretty much on schedule. Le Thesis will get done, and will reasonably approximate being on time. What's nice is that the I.N.P.O.D. said that the due date is a little bit flexible, so if I'm a day or two late, that doesn't matter.

You'll hear ALL about the play.

It's due a week from tomorrow (the Ides of March, interestingly enough). The plan is to have Le Thesis complete by 12:00 noon and then have the afternoon to print and deliver to my committee. It'll be Spring Break, then, so the people cruch won't be so bad.

I am so looking forward to seeing this play. It's one of my favorites of the ones I've written, and it's a comedy. Just what I need.

I think I mentioned when the play was first accepted for production, but that was a while ago, and many things have happened since then. Back in November, I entered a student playwriting contest. The prize was $30 and performance. They chose three winners, and I'm one. The performance is tonight. I love being the playwright because I don't actually have to do anything on the production other than waltz grandly into the theater and then hang out and be fed at a reception tomorrow evening.

Le Thesis is coming along. I'm so ready for it to be done. I figure I can kind of understand what it feels like to be nine months pregnant now.

Well, you know I love an audience. And a live one is such a trip. You get to sit with them as they watch and (hopefully) laugh, and it makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside when they do. And it's neat for me, too, because the only way I've ever experienced this play is in the words I wrote. The director and the actors know more about it at this point than I do, so it's almost like seeing something completely new. Only it's mine, and that's special.

Sort of. The play will be performed, and I get to bask in glory tonight. Spring Break starts next week officially (since I have no Friday classes, I consider it as starting ot noon on Thursday), but Le Thesis is due a week from Wednesday. I'll be spending the majority of Spring Break finishing Le Thesis and then recovering. I don't mind -- no classes to get in the way of thesing, and I do get a day or so completely off.

After I hand in Le Thesis and rise from the subsequent twenty-four-hour nap, I still have classwork, a conference to attend, and a defense to schedule sometime in April. But that's nothing compared to Le Thesis.

Spring Break? Does it come with Spring attached to it?

*Looks out the window at sleety slushy snow on the ground*

Um, no.

I can't believe I'm almost done. Sure feels like I've been working on Le Thesis forever.

You can do it! You have all the ability and drive it takes

Thanks for the encouragement -- I'll need it. T minus eight days now. . . .

And playwrighting too. Can one person contain so much talent?

Well, you know I write fiction. Prose and drama. They're not that different, after all. (And it probably explains why my stories always seem to involve people sitting around and talking.)

Thank you! T minus eight days now!

Thanks! I'm gearing up for it now. The last week. T minus seven days.

The play was awesome. I'll probably post about it later today.