{"id":4152,"date":"2012-03-22T09:52:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T09:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=4152"},"modified":"2012-03-22T22:53:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T22:53:52","slug":"thank-god-hallelujah-amen-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=4152","title":{"rendered":"Thank God, Hallelujah, Amen. The End."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=Indent>Well, yes. From the title of this post, you might have sensed that the Odyssey is now at an end. D has fought a good fight, and finished the course; the corrections have been accepted, and it&#8217;s all over but the signatures on the sheepskin (we can only hope it&#8217;s not a real sheep). While T. wanted to plan a party, she has her work cut out for her. &#8220;No toasts, no speeches, nothing but food, and only a few people,&#8221; has already been stipulated. As to the next question,<\/p>\n<p class=Indent><i>&#8220;And what are you going to do now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to&#8230; <\/i>&#8221; You will not be given the traditional post-Superbowl response. D said, &#8220;We&#8217;re definitely not going to Disneyland. Maybe Epcot.&#8221; All right, all right, we&#8217;ll have to make do with that. It <i>kind of<\/i> has a ring to it. <i>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to Epcot!!&#8221;<\/i> Okay, yes.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>(We&#8217;re going, eventually. After we find a job. And have, you know, <i>money<\/i>. And stuff. All of which is infinitely easier to come by should you be able to tell employees that you&#8217;ve actually finished your schooling.)<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Thank you to all of you who have hung in there and kept D. in your thoughts. And to those of you who knew he would eventually prevail &#8211; of course, you were right. Thank you for being on hand to keep reminding him, whilst T. kicked him in the bum.<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>(It&#8217;s so good to be the one writing this without actual oversight.)<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>For those who have been <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/MacknetThesis.pdf\" target= _blank>dying for a peek<\/a>, here&#8217;s the Advanced Readers Copy. Next week it will be hard bound (with hand-tooled gold on leather bindings? No? ::sigh::) and a copy given to the University library, and one for the department. We are not having a copy made for us, we don&#8217;t think; we are currently of two minds about it, as it seems to some of us as rather conceited. On the other hand, there&#8217;s always a need for something to stack beneath a computer monitor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=Indent>Please note: it <i>is<\/i> a PhD dissertation, by American standards, but in the UK it&#8217;s known as a doctoral thesis. The paper adheres to British spelling, which means D&#8217;s spelling may be atrocious for the rest of his life, as he wonders about adding additional vowels and &#8220;zeds&#8221; instead of z&#8217;s. Oh, well. At least no one is grading him. Ever, <i>ever<\/i> again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/snoopy_dance.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/snoopy_dance.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"snoopy_dance\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, yes. From the title of this post, you might have sensed that the Odyssey is now at an end. D has fought a good fight, and finished the course; the corrections have been accepted, and it&#8217;s all over but the signatures on the sheepskin (we can only hope it&#8217;s not a real sheep). 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