Random Bullets of Crap: End of Semester Edition

• It is finally time to take the defense ticker off my page--coming up on 2 weeks since officially getting the PhD. However, I am leaving the exclamation point [Ph.D.!] on my email signature until after graduation this weekend.
• House hunting is very overwhelming. #1 a new task for statgirl and #2 not as easy when shopping from out of state. Will be traveling to new city soon to look at actual properties.
• Graduation is this weekend. Family arrives on Friday--oh dear, please save me from any potential family explosion or embarassing moment. P.S. This is probably a ridiculous expectation but I'm asking for it anyway.
• I have 2 papers left to grade. Why don't I just finish them up and be done? No!--I'm updating my blog.
• No F's this semester (as in grades earned by my students).
• I haven't seen the top of my desk in weeks and I have no motivation to clear it off.
• I have nothing to wear under my robes for graduation. Need a new outfit for the party after the hooding.
• I finally have a gift for DA for graduation; but am worried she won't like it. I want her to have a "keepsake" type gift and those are hard to come up with. She is a difficult one to figure out what she would like.
• Still need to write the 'thank you's' for the people who wrote letters of rec. for my during the job hunt. Yes, I am horribly behind in this dept.
• I never sent out graduation announcements--used the e-vite thing for party invites but couldn't bring myself to actually get real addresses and send the cute little printed announcements with my name and degree in them. I should feel bad about this but I do not.
• I am spending an entire week on the beach to celebrate being done. Hey! That may require a new countdown ticker!!