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I thought it was probably getting a bit wearing to read updates along the lines of "nearly finished now, just a half-inch left to go", "very nearly finished now, just a quarter-inch left to go", "getting there, unusually rapid progress means a mere ninth of an inch left to the end", &c &c.

So I decided to leave off saying anything about it until I submitted it.

Which I did, today.

I was given a glass paperweight. That seemed like a fair return on my investment. :)


Of course, now I move from anxiously wondering if I'll ever submit to anxiously wondering If I'll pass, but right now at least I don't feel at all anxious. The examining and whatnot all seems to be infinitely far away... I feel free. I think I ought to do something extravagant in order to celebrate, but nothing much comes to mind. Maybe the thing is that... with the weight off my shoulders, everything, even sitting here in this silly little computer lab (where so much of the editing and whatnot happened) feels like a celebration, feels like a bit of extravagance in its own way.


Perhaps a beer with dinner will round out the day best. :)