Oy. Veh.

Long story short, Yahoo! Photos sent me a message that they were getting ready to close, and offered to move my pictures over to Flickr. I decided this would be a good idea. I've put a link to the pictures up for you over there to right somewhere ....

Looking at these old pictures, I've come to two main conclusions:

1) My friends and family are lovely, cool fun people ... and I miss you all!!!

2) goodNESS -- writing a dissertation packs on the pounds. This is not even a little ok.

Reason number 875 to get on with it and move on to the rest of my life....

Thanks, always, for all of your prayers and support and kind words, and even for the boxes of chocolate and donuts that were NECESSARY at the time...

Namaste ---

(mini Addendum: "writing a dissertation" = worrying about, obsessing about, freaking out about, frantically writing, ignoring, mental paralysis, long nights, days when I couldn't get out of bed, days when everything was ok, sharing with friends, completely closing myself off from all contact with friends, and everything else in between.)