Things are happening!

The days of my life flow by with breathtaking speed at times, and I am often consternated at how little I seem able to accomplish in a day. And then come days when everything seems to fall in place.

Sunday I finally finished the first draft of my master's thesis, though of course it needs a lot of work work; portions of it need to be moved to different sections, three or so chapters will be completely assimilated into their neighbors, and the length of many of my sentences, grown to unhealthy extremes by my tendency to crowd a whole legion of thoughts into the space between two periods, and to use ridiculously complex structures containing asides (and even occasional parenthetical remarks) must be, for the sake of the beauty of my prose and the reading comprehension of my poor and mostly non-native speaking audience, reduced.

In all fairness, I could have written that sentence in German using one noun and one verb, each of them a page long.

And Project II, the Search for Employment, is also off to a good start. I've just had a phone interview with a recruiter in London and will be headed downtown tomorrow to meet another. I'd rather be interviewing for jobs directly, of course, but I really want to work for a Japanese company if possible, and they seem to work mostly through recruiting agencies.

I need to get back to my thesis now. I am starting to really believe that I will be graduated and employed at the end of March. Wish me luck!