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:
w00t! Congrats! Now go drink some more, and watch more BSG.
yeah! congrats!
Congratulations! Sounds like a great meeting. Gotta love the "promising." :)
woohoo! hey, once the IRB stops making me run in circles, I'll be AB...C(omps)... and two more terms. um. yeah.
Congratulations!!
Indeed, may everyone's weekend be filled with acronyms! ALDS/NLDS, BSG, ABD (or ABC), and BEER.
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