Update on the state of me

My wrist is still bothering me a bit from the mugging last week. Two Philly detectives came by my apartment last night and formally took my statement and my boyfriend’s. I think they may have caught one of the four guys, which is a step in the right direction. A nice lady found my keys in the weeds, and my Moo cards with my lab phone number were still on the keychain, so she called my lab and I was able to meet her and get my keys back. I walked along the block where she found my keys and found my hand lotion, one of my tubes of lip balm, and some trash I knew had been in my bag.

I’ve started replacing most of my things that were stolen, which is more frustrating than anything else. I’m back in lab, at work, for the first time in months. I’m in limbo though. I’m appealing to the executive committee of my department to let me stay in the PhD department, and not only get my masters (and then have to apply to another school if I want to continue my education). I’m writing an appeal letter that is due tomorrow, and hopefully they will meet sometime next week. No one has ever done this, so it’s new territory for me and the University. We’ll see what happens.

So I’m plugging away at labwork, more than happy to be back at work and not at home all day. Kinda in limbo at the moment though until we find out if I’m going to remain a PhD student or be downgraded to a masters student.