Looks as though you're reading words from a high school English teacher.

If the IVF works, I'll be in the position of working full-time until January, but getting paid part-time. The job isn't full-time over the course of the year: it's a full load until January, and then moves to a 3/4 load. But the pay is averaged out. So I have to phone a lawyer at our teachers' society to ask for advice on that.

DH has likely found work: setting up a company with a handful of other guys. Odds are that they'll make a killing, but he and I wouldn't see each other much for the first few years, since he'd be running around for his work. He'll be very good at it, but I worry that he won't have enough time for his hobbies. But that will all work itself out, I guess.

My thesis isn't as bad as I was making it out to be. In terms of my current field, Education, what I'm doing is cutting-edge and even avant-garde. But I'm borrowing a lot of things from the arts and humanities, especially English, and I know that people in English would view my work very negatively, including saying that it's not original enough. I guess I still want to measure up in the English department, but I don't.

Thanks for all the encouraging comments. You did all make me feel a bit better.

Am definitely feeling my ovaries. I go in for monitoring tomorrow. I don't have any expectations. If anything, I'm guessing that because of the conservative dose, I'll have only a few follies, and we'll have to cancel and start over again.

Blegh.