It is 9:44pm on a Saturday night, and my dissertation is almost complete. I spent the last six hours putting in page numbers (for the figure pages), then threading it all together into a beautiful whole (well, whole chapters as PDFs), then completing the table of contents. I now have left to do:
Acknowledgements
Abstracts
Table of tables (it's a handful of entries short)
Which is good, as I want to hand this off to my committee in the coming week. Next week I take it to the Office of Graduate Studies and Research and they check the formatting to make sure it's all good. Hopefully, it will be.
...and, like someone with an optical media tic, I continue to back this up onto CDs repeatedly.
So, things left to do before the Comic-con this Thursday include the above, as well as...
Put together any pitch packages I want to have on me
Edit and update an article I wrote back on 2000 for my black belt, since the program now wants to publish it in their scholarly journal (this came at an excellent time, as you can see)
*twitch, twitch*