knitting! [195.365]

It was a strange but wonderful feeling to have the house ALL TO MYSELF Monday morning, and not have any work hanging over my head. So I knit. It was great. Then M came home from her school camp (which is only in the mornings for the summer) and oy, it's seeming like she's in…

oh, hey, I have a Ph.D now!

I defended this Thursday, and it was great. For the first part of my introduction before my talk, my advisor read the opening paragraph of my personal statement from when I applied to grad school here, which was embarrassing but in a good way – I was such an earnest little language-dork! Then he proceeded…