Sixpence Widget

Just FYI, Sixpence is cooking up a new album, so I thought I'd post their widget with some samples. They also have a Christmas album just out, called Dawn of Grace...

Done and Dusted

Ladybug here, masquerading as Pancho (as if you couldn't tell).

Well, I guess I can now say that the dissertation is done and dusted. The corrected bound copy, after much travail--well, after a lot of unnecessary faff, at least--has finally made its way to the hands of the internal examiner and thus to BoGs (the Board of Graduate Studies). I could go into a long and complicated story as to why exactly 1 page of simple corrections lingered on for two months and why I wasted 150 pounds binding 3 copies of a thesis that wasn't quite right, but it's frankly boring and involves a lot of obsessive compulsive perfectionism. Interestingly, once I screwed up that ridiculously, I found it very difficult to believe that I'd corrected everything. Suddenly the virtues of handwritten corrections became very obvious. You do them once, for example, and they're done. No worrying about whether this version of the document has all the corrections that you know you did to some version or other...

To commemorate this auspicious occasion, I decided to get a nasty stomach flu, miss two classes, and then in a haze of residual nausea lead a far-too-technical grammar discussion (+ tirade - that one's a bonus!) to class today.

Viva le PhD!