Appropriate responses to friendly queries

poetgrl
Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:38:08 +0000

congratulations, that’s fantastic. good for you.

“Do? what do you mean, do?”

“I’m not sure yet. I want to enjoy the moment.”

“Go to lunch. Care to join me?”

Here is the only thing I will say to you, and I’m not asking. Just for you to think about for yourself. If somebody asks me what I am going to do with something and I have no desire to do anything with it? I don’t feel like saying that is lame. So, the only question you need to ask yourself is whether or not you really, in your heart, want to do something else with this doctorate. For you. Not because it is lame not to, because it is not, but because the feeling of it being lame might be your way of telling yourself you are not yet done with something…blah, blah, blah.

YMMV