Ph-Dizzle from the U-C-Schnizzel-Chisel

Welp, this weekend was quite busy, but I am proud to say that I have successfully defended my dissertation, all 3 members of my committee have approved and signed the front cover of it, and I will be turning it in to the Grad Division tomorrow morning (it's due at 4:30pm). I spent all day battling the margins to get them to conform to University Standards, and a while making the last minute corrections my committee gave me, but as of about 60 minutes ago, I have the final copy printed and ready to turn in in the morning (after I fill out the requisite exit forms and red tape). I also managed to down about 4-5 shots worth of 14-year single malt scotch today which admittedly may have slowed down the whole final editing process a bit!

A picture from the party last night, during which I was still kind of too much in shock to process everything...



- Doctor Jones^*

(*) I'm not sure when the official time is when I'm allowed to use that prefix, but most of the grads around here seem to agree it's when your committee signs your dissertation and shakes your hand, so by that reasoning, it is already in effect!) Now all I need to do is marry someone with the last name of "Mindbender", and I'll be all set to report to Cobra Command =)