Thesis

[helenic]

I've just handed in two copies to be bound.

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD.

No-one who hasn't done this themselves will ever know what it feels like.

Comments

[lovelyoliver.livejournal.com]

congratulations. i take it you will be celebrating this evening?

[libellum.livejournal.com]

if the lack of sleep doesn't kill me first...

[nicolasix.livejournal.com]

congratulations! this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nicolasix/4372.html?mode=reply) is how i felt. i think it is basically indescribable. xx.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Panic and exhaustion and hatred and horror and euphoria and being six months, a quarter of a BA and 10 000 words lighter.

No, you're right. It's indescribable. But THIS FEELING is why I want to stay in academia.

[stopsignsongs.livejournal.com]

so brilliant. congratulations!

(was lovely to see you, by the way)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling pretty thrilled. Well, thrilled and traumatised. And at the same time, a complete absense of anything.

likewise! We'll definitely have to bump into each other again next time you're in Cam. You're fab :)

[gnimmel.livejournal.com]

Handing in the PhD thesis was most peculiar. I wandered around town for several hours feeling completely directionless and as light as air.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Yes - it's a sort of sublimation of feeling. An immense, sudden rush of everything dissipating, simultaneous with fear and pride and excitement and relief...

Peculiar. Very.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

No-one who hasn't done this themselves will ever know what it feels like.

Amen to that!

And WHOO, CONGRATS for you! =)

[transitus.livejournal.com]

totally off-topic, but... NUMFAR!!!

That icon just totally made my day.

*squee*

[corchen.livejournal.com]

Toast to the Helen!

Knew you could do it.

Re: *squee*

[libellum.livejournal.com]

Toast! *squees with you*

The scary thing is I knew I could do it to. I should stop taking these risks; every time I somehow pull it off despite everything, it just reinforces my attitude, and one of these days it's going to fail me. But. Not yet. :)

[transitus.livejournal.com]

Congratulations honey :)

(I'm also really glad that the downing internet-outage doesn't seem to have affected you pre-diss-finishing!)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

oh it was wonderful! It meant that between 10pm last night and 5.30am this morning I had no distractions, I could just work and smoke and drink coffee. That internet outage saved my LIFE.

Are you in Cam? After I've handed it in, do you want to laze on the paddock and drink wine?

[verte.livejournal.com]

YAY! Well done for doing that to yourself and emerging almost alive at the other end...

[libellum.livejournal.com]

THANKYOU! GO ME! :D :D

two hours' sleep! on top of an average of 5 a night over the last week. I'm strangely energised. I feel very strange.

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

*grin* Congratulations. It's a great feeling.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

It is indeed :)

btw, did you get my email about possibly borrowing a dress? I won't mind too much if the answer's no, but if it is I want to know so I can work out what I'm going to do instead.

[emperor]

Excellent, go you :)

I lose a lot of this with my written work, because it goes back and forth to my supervisor and CRW so many times before actually being submitted.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

yeah - he never saw the final draft. he's odd and picky though so I'm kind of glad - I got my father and the_lady_lily to look at it instead ;)

[smcv.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!

See you at the pub, I hope :-)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

thankyou!

Apologies for my EXTREME DRUNKENNESS last night. O dear god.

[greenelephant.livejournal.com]

Whee!! Congratulations!! Coincidentally, I found out yesterday that my dissertation is now listed in the UMI database, finally convincing me (a year later) that I did finish :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

wow! that's pretty cool. Mine won't go in the college library unless I win the prize, I think, which is pretty unlikely ;) I'm kind of glad about it actually. Or I wonder, if they were binding it and keeping it, would they let me edit? hrrm.

I'm currently fluctuating between not being able to believe that I finished it, and not being able to believe that I did it at all, and it wasn't all some kind of bad dream...

[glitzfrau.livejournal.com]

I have done it to myself, twice no less, and I know EXACTLY what it feels like. Whoo-hoo! Go forth and celebrate mightily! Well done.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

that's a very, very cool icon :D

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Congratulations :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

yay! thankyou so much for help with last-minute editing - I know you were busy. It was tremendously helpful :)

[taimatsu]

Well done :)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

thankyou! :) I'm pretty chuffed. And tired. but also chuffed. And you have a SQUEE icon! Squee!

[zougwa.livejournal.com]

No, I have no idea. But I can imagine.
Congratulations and good luck.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

thankyou!

[surje.livejournal.com]

i'm disappointed in you. you could have found another 12 words from somewhere.

(seriously, well done!)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

:P I don't know, I could have, but somehow handing it in on 10 000 just seems so smug.

but, yay, thankyou. btw, do you know what's the plan for film club this week?

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Whooooo!!!!!

That's wonderful. Congratulations. :-)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

wheee! go me!

[smhwpf.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Congratulations! Yay you! :-)

[libellum.livejournal.com]

thankyou! yay me indeed!

[translucent.livejournal.com]

I've the largest grin on my face. !!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

so did I for most of yesterday! Today, however, I am mostly tired. But: yay!

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

yay indeed! :D

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Go you!

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I know! I can't quite believe it...

[mejoff.livejournal.com]

Yay!
Well done.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

thankyou!

(your icon is scary...)

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

Oooooooh!

SO MANY CONGRATULATIONS! And also, I'd like to read that... maybe once it's published and you're famous? Or maybe once we get to know each other better!

EXCITING.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

VERY EXCITING! I still can't believe it's all over! I can like, have a life again!

Yay, it's really really pleasing that you're interested :) I could email it to you if you like? I doubt it'll ever be published, I'm not saying anything that exciting ;)

[whatifoundthere.livejournal.com]

One of the wisest things my mother said: drug addicts are drug addicts because they feel a high and then suffer a crash. But academics are academics because we have the crash first, then we feel the high.

Congratulations!

But dude, turn off Word's automatic spell-check already! That drove me batshit after about two and a half seconds. I can't believe you wrote an entire thesis with it on.

[oakwonder.livejournal.com]

What she said. Don't the squiggles under things you know aren't wrong drive you nuts?