Summer's Almost Gone & the Winter's Tuning Up

I suppose that I should post an update: my defence last Friday went fairly well.  There were several difficult questions asked (some of which Jo later commented that she didn't think were entirely relevant or appropriate) but, although I wasn't as on as I would have liked to have been, the committee still approved my thesis with some minor revisions.  (Largely changing a few sentence structures, and adding a bit more data.)

I finished those last night, and got all the forms signed today.  I now need to submit them to someone, although the graduate secretary is on vacation until the 29^th.  After which I need to scrounge up enough money to pay for the binding costs of the various non-library copies of my thesis, and then I can no longer put "Student" in the occupation section of surveys.

It feels strange to have Sept. coming and not having a new school year starting for the first time in roughly 20 years.