First Tweet

I emailed L.K. (the retired musicologist in Russia).  She responded and said she would be happy to help me locate any manuscripts.  I am incredibly inadequate as far as expressing my gratitude in Russia, as well as my appreciation for her informative research within the field.  She did thank me for the kind words, so I think she understood.

My proposal is written.  It's terrible, but it is written.  Revisions and clarifications come next.  I'm taking volunteers for whoever wants to read my proposal and give me feedback on clarity.  I will provided the suggested layout and what the proposal needs to cover.  Any volunteers? ... I don't know if I would volunteer to read 15 pages double spaced of a dissertation proposal either.  I do have some people I trust completely to read and give wonderful feedback.  I am grateful that I know such intelligent people.

Tomorrow begins a month of preparation work.  Now that travels have finished and all that stands in front of me and the beginning of the next semester is a month of time, I will continue my four-hours-a-day on dissertation writing.   I will intersperse that with about four hours of work on school prep, which will mainly consist of emails and music study.  I have this wonderful choral librarian at work who has already pulled all the music I requested.  To be fair, I don't know how wonderful he is, but I was so impressed with his "go getter" attitude, how could he not be wonderful?  I've seen this focus in other students of mine, as well.  Already.  I haven't even met them, and I can already tell they are some of the most focused, hard working students.  No bias, of course.

In other exciting news, I have posted my first tweet.