Taking it to the bridge
If you know anyone who has a room for rent in Seattle for a few months, let me know, as that’s where I’m a-headed. A few months off are about to do me a world of good, and I’m very much looking forward to experiencing the Emerald City.
A number of my favorite tunes have an AABA structure, for example “T’ain’t what you do,” by Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra:
When I was a kid, ’bout half past three,
My daddy said ‘Son, come here to me.’
He said ‘Things may come, and things may go,
but this is one thing you ought to know.
T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it,
T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it,
T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it,
That’s what gets results.
Bridge:
You can try hard, don’t mean a thing,
Take it easy, breezy, then your jive will swing.
Oh, it ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it,
T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it,
T’ain’t what you do, it’s the way that you do it,
That’s what gets results.’
So, if you’ll grant that working with my first advisor and finishing my thesis proposal under my current advisor were the first two sections of grad school, then I’m just taking it to the bridge before I finish up. Hey, I never said my metaphors weren’t demanding of the reader.
What will I do in Seattle? Well, I’m still puzzling that one out. I intend to keep my research on the back burner, but I have a few other programming projects I want to sift through. I might look for some manual labor, or take some one-off consulting gigs. I might learn to paint, or read a ton of good books. We’ll see.