On Baby A's birthday, the c-section surgery went as planned. I walked into the OR around 9:30am and was pushed out around 2 hours later. W was instructed to wait outside while the team was getting me prepared for anesthesia. He then got invited to come in and sat next to me while the team worked on getting Baby A out of me 😂. W was a good DJ and Baby A was born while Taylor Swift's Shake It Off was being played. So...did I feel any pain during this life-changing surgery? No, I didn't. I had a spinal block. I never felt any type of pain during the surgery. Getting the anesthesia injected - however - was the most uncomfortable part of the surgery. There was a lot of pressure. I felt my back being pulled or pushed, or something. It just felt very uncomfortable, not painful, but very uncomfortable. It was also hard to try leaning toward the source of that uncomfortableness. Learning to relax while being uncomfortable was a very hard thing to do. But it was necessary. Once it...
Warning, this is a vent post.
Yesterday, I got a phone call from my school's Thesis Office. A gentleman told me my dissertation has been read, unfortunately, I still have corrections that need to be made. On my correction sheet, a list of items were marked as "missing." In a split second, I got so frustrated. The items marked missing were what the school called "multiple author release" forms and copyright/agreement for using published works. These forms were signed by coauthors of papers I've published before. Basically, each coauthor signed a form and stated they were ok to let me use our published work as part of my dissertation. I got everyone's signatures (a total of 9 forms) the week of my defense in January (many were signed right after I passed the defense). I personally submitted these forms with my printout dissertation to Thesis Office on the very day after the defense in January (the office requires everything in hard copy and submitted by the student only with the exception of letting a friend turn in hard copies for the student with another release form signed, which I did). I flew back to Colorado that same week to continue with my job hunt.
I had received a correction sheet with a list of correction requests in late January. While working on that correction sheet in late Jan/early Feb, no one mentioned the missing documents. I had a good friend who helped me submit my version 2 (really, version 7 on my computer) of the dissertation to the office in Feb. Then, yesterday came the phone call and email with that list of missing items that were turned in a couple of months ago. You see, missing signatures can be a big deal or not quite a biggie. In this case, it's a big deal. First, I don't live in UT anymore, so it's hard for me to physically go get those signatures from different people in different departments on/off campus on short notice (office told me they want signatures in ink). Second, 9 signatures. I honestly was worried "what if the missing signatures were misplaced somewhere where they shouldn't be" and "what if someone got other people's signatures?" Also, some of my coauthors don't live in UT anymore. Additionally, the correction list said everything needs to be turned in, in hard copy, by next week. So it was a hot mess in my head to sort out the logistics of how to "replace" the missing items.
Long story short, after 4 hours/several phone calls and having spoken with three different people, one person gloriously found those signed forms and copyright/agreement stuff!!
During my "panic mode," I contacted my coauthors and told them the office may have lost the forms therefore I needed their signatures again - just in case the office really couldn't find the forms. Some took the initiative to work on it within a couple of hours, I appreciate my coauthors' support!! Some people also told me I should complain about this. Someone even mentioned that I should talk to the VP for Student Affairs. I should. I believe I should too. However, to be honest, I worry that I would put my dissertation in jeopardy because what if they switch the person in charge of my dissertation and in return I have to explain many things again and miss the deadline for Spring graduation (which apparently is next week)? And what if I continue to have the same person reviewing my dissertation but because of an investigation/talk/who-knows-what-procedure on my complain so the person can't work on my file with unbiased attitude 100%?
Alright, enough vents. I need to get back on editing my dissertation. 😑
Update: 4/1 April Fool's Day / Easter Sunday, I submitted the newest version of the 127 pages of manuscript to my school's print & delivery office. Hopefully I'll get a call from them very soon, like on Monday/tomorrow to make payment and get this big stack of paper to where it needs to go. And I'm no longer frustrated about Friday's incident of "missing items." As long as things are where they need to be, I'm good. Also, as I was reading and making corrections per the markups from the Thesis Office, I realized how many mistakes I've made so I appreciate their time in reading/pointing out the inconsistencies and errors. I just hope I really can graduate this May!
I had received a correction sheet with a list of correction requests in late January. While working on that correction sheet in late Jan/early Feb, no one mentioned the missing documents. I had a good friend who helped me submit my version 2 (really, version 7 on my computer) of the dissertation to the office in Feb. Then, yesterday came the phone call and email with that list of missing items that were turned in a couple of months ago. You see, missing signatures can be a big deal or not quite a biggie. In this case, it's a big deal. First, I don't live in UT anymore, so it's hard for me to physically go get those signatures from different people in different departments on/off campus on short notice (office told me they want signatures in ink). Second, 9 signatures. I honestly was worried "what if the missing signatures were misplaced somewhere where they shouldn't be" and "what if someone got other people's signatures?" Also, some of my coauthors don't live in UT anymore. Additionally, the correction list said everything needs to be turned in, in hard copy, by next week. So it was a hot mess in my head to sort out the logistics of how to "replace" the missing items.
Long story short, after 4 hours/several phone calls and having spoken with three different people, one person gloriously found those signed forms and copyright/agreement stuff!!
During my "panic mode," I contacted my coauthors and told them the office may have lost the forms therefore I needed their signatures again - just in case the office really couldn't find the forms. Some took the initiative to work on it within a couple of hours, I appreciate my coauthors' support!! Some people also told me I should complain about this. Someone even mentioned that I should talk to the VP for Student Affairs. I should. I believe I should too. However, to be honest, I worry that I would put my dissertation in jeopardy because what if they switch the person in charge of my dissertation and in return I have to explain many things again and miss the deadline for Spring graduation (which apparently is next week)? And what if I continue to have the same person reviewing my dissertation but because of an investigation/talk/who-knows-what-procedure on my complain so the person can't work on my file with unbiased attitude 100%?
Alright, enough vents. I need to get back on editing my dissertation. 😑
Update: 4/1 April Fool's Day / Easter Sunday, I submitted the newest version of the 127 pages of manuscript to my school's print & delivery office. Hopefully I'll get a call from them very soon, like on Monday/tomorrow to make payment and get this big stack of paper to where it needs to go. And I'm no longer frustrated about Friday's incident of "missing items." As long as things are where they need to be, I'm good. Also, as I was reading and making corrections per the markups from the Thesis Office, I realized how many mistakes I've made so I appreciate their time in reading/pointing out the inconsistencies and errors. I just hope I really can graduate this May!
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