Sunday, July 23, 2006

Meet Patricia

It seems that lately most of the people around me are finishing their PhD. Most of us came at the same time and after 4.5-5.5 years everybody seem to finish. I finished one month before my baby was born, that was my great motivation. It was perfect timing, I was so glad to have all my time to spend just with him instead of with my papers! Actually I still have a couple of papers to work on, but it's in a much more relaxed way.
Parece que ultimamente la mayoria de la gente que me rodea esta acabando su doctorado. La mayoria llegaron a la vez que yo y 4.5-5.5 anhos despues todo el mundo parece estar acabando. Yo acabe el mio un mes antes de que naciese mi bebe, fue mi gran motivacion. Fue el momento perfecto, estaba tan contenta de poder pasar cada minuto con mi ninho en lugar de con mis articulos! Bueno, aun tengo un par de articulos que mandar a publicar, pero de manera mucho mas relajada

One of my friends (the one getting the brown bag) came at the same time as me but she wasn't lucky at all with her advisors. It's amazing how some people want to make your life difficult and make you suffer for no clear reason. Science sometimes is like this, there are a lot of people with huge egoes and that think about graduate students as slaves. It's bad. I hope she can make it and finish soon. We will have a big party to celebrate it, she deserves it.
Una de mis amigas (a la que le regale el bolso marron) vino a la vez que yo pero ella no fue muy afortunada con sus profesores. Es increible como algunas personas quieren hacerte la vida dificil y hacerte sufrir por ninguna razon aparente. La ciencia a veces es asi, hay mucha gente egocentrica que piensan que estudiantes de dotorado/master son esclavos. Es terrible. Espero que lo consiga y acabe pronto. Tendremos una gran fiesta para celebrarlo, se lo merece.

My sister is also finishing but she is also having a baby soon. She changed projects several times and location so it's been hard, and now it seems that she is always working very hard trying to get most of this done before my I'm-sure-beautiful niece is born. She is very close to the end, hopefully we will be both phd stay-home moms. I'm looking forward to that so she can start using her sewing machine some more.
Mi hermana tambien esta acabando pero ademas esta a punto de tener un bebe. Cambio de proyecto varias veces y de lugar de trabajo asi que no ha sido facil, y ahora parece que siempre esta trabajando muy duro para acabar la mayoria antes de que mi estoy-segura-que-guapisima sobrina nazca. Esta muy cerca del final, asi que espero que pronto las dos seamos doctoras-amas de casa. Tengo muchas ganas de que eso llegue para que empiece a usar mas su maquina de coser.

My husband is also in the same boat, now realizing that the deadlines are right around the corner. Let's see how this end of the year goes. Looking forward to Christmas in Spain.
Mi marido tambien esta en lo mismo, ahora dandose cuenta de que las fechas de entrega estan ahi mismo. A ver como acaba el anho. Estoy deseando que lleguen las Navidades en Espanha.

And finally, my last doll, following Hillary's bunny pattern from the put together pattern booklet #1. It was very easy and fast. Meet Patricia. She has cute shoes.
Y finalmente, mi ultima munheca, siguiendo el patron del conejito de Hillary del libro de patrones #1. Fue muy facil y rapido. Conoce a Patricia. Tiene unos zapatitos muy bonitos.


5 comments:

laura said...

Mmmm, fantástica, Patricia es simplemente fantástica.

African Kelli said...

That is so fantastic you have your PhD. I finished graduate school a couple of years ago and have thought about going back. I'm just not sure. I hope all your friends graduations and babies happen just at the right time!

laeroport said...

Adorable. ;)

Verrito said...

está hermosa Patricia! me encantaron los zapatitos y el vestido, la tela muy linda....

Lolita Blahnik said...

Preciosos los zapatos de Patricia! A ESTA OTRA pATRICIA TAMBIEN LE ENCANTAN LOS ZAPATOS BONITOS...