Friday, October 05, 2007

DISSPROCOM

Yesterday's dissertation proposal meeting, by the numbers:

Number of committee members: 3

Committee members I had imagined as Soviet bureaucrats, grilling me with sneers half-hidden under grizzled mustaches, adhering dogmatically to party principle: 3

Number of French expats:
1
Number of lapsed Mormons from Utah: 1
Number of Jews from New York: 1
Number of committee members with mustaches: 0

Percent of time spent discussing proposal: 20
Percent of time two committee members spent riffing off proposal: 80
Number of amused looks exchanged between the third committee member and myself at aforementioned riffs: at least 2

Number of times the word "promising" was used (not by me): 1
Number of nods at the word "promising": 2

Number of helpful comments: 1.5
Number of times my eyes bugged out of my head: 1
Number of chapters the French expat suggested I write by June, producing the aforementioned eye-bugging: 3

Drinks consumed last night in celebration
: 3
Episodes of Battlestar Galactica watched: 2 (I know, disgustingly moderate on both counts)

Satisfaction at being ABD: Uncountable

6 comments:

Jane Dark said...

w00t! Congrats! Now go drink some more, and watch more BSG.

JM said...

yeah! congrats!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations! Sounds like a great meeting. Gotta love the "promising." :)

SK said...

woohoo! hey, once the IRB stops making me run in circles, I'll be AB...C(omps)... and two more terms. um. yeah.

Dr. Brazen Hussy said...

Congratulations!!

kermitthefrog said...

Indeed, may everyone's weekend be filled with acronyms! ALDS/NLDS, BSG, ABD (or ABC), and BEER.