after-thesis-life

that was the first weekend in three years without thinking about what i need to do for or working on the thesis. wow. felt great!

went climbing in the peak sunday, first time in weeks, and first time on proper limestone, even with multipitch! a little bit of prep for lofoten :) the weather played along and at the end of the day, we had glorious sunshine!

this morning, in a very last minute action, the van was fitted with a towbar, so who knows, i might be towing trailers with kayaks around northern norway this time next week... will be interesting!

t!!!

that's it! the thesis is submitted!

the printing took forever, cos the printer is just soooooooo slow. but at least the stuff looks good then. got it bound today in the morning, nice fancy heat/glue/whatever binding :) and then drove over to unitown, went to the office, handed two copies plus paperwork over, and that was it.

the handing over thing was a bit of an anti-climax, very unexciting, but the feeling afterwards is just great! i still find it difficult to believe that i don't have to work and write on the thesis now. or tomorrow, or indeed until i get my corrections! and even the papers can wait till after norway. how weird.


das war's! die arbeit ist eingereicht!

drucken hat ewig gedauert, weil dieser drucker einfach nur unglaublich langsam ist. aber wenigstens sieht alles super aus. hab's heute morgen binden lassen, schicke klebebindung :) und dann bin ich rueber zur uni gefahren, zum buero gelaufen, hab zwei kopien plus formulare ueberreicht, und das war's. sehr unspektakulaer. aber das gefuehl danach, das ist herrlich! ich kann's immernoch kaum glauben, dass ich jetzt nicht an der diss weiterarbeiten oder schreiben muss. nicht jetzt, nicht morgen, noch nicht mal bis ich die liste fuer korrekturen kriege! und selbst die veroeffentlichungen koennen bis nach norwegen warten! cool.

t-0.5

DONE!!!!

just waiting for people to disappear so that i can block the printer :)
am feeling incredibly nervous, for no real reason.


UPDATE :)

t-1

aaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!

must not forget to write the abstract!!!!

t-1.5

the farewells have started.

this evening, i've been at my last wednesday night social at the canoe club. lots of people were on the river and the lovely social secretary aka the northern bastard threw a formidable barbie. tonight is also gonna be the farewell from one of my housemates, the others are around when i actually leave next week. friday is the submission celebration and farewell from cambridge. wow. almost got used to not move on every half year and leave friends behind.


die zeit der abschiede hat mal wieder begonnen.

heute abend war ich zum letzten mal beim mittwoch abend social im klub. viele leute aufm fluss und ein super barbecue! ausserdem ist heute abend der abschied von einer meiner mitwohnis, die anderen sind da, wenn ich dann tatsaechlich losfahre. und freitag ist dann abgabefeier und abschied von cambridge. wow. hatte mich schon fast dran gewoehnt, nicht mehr alle halbe jahr weiterzuziehen und freunde zurueckzulassen.

t-2

it's grey and raining. am struggling with motivation issues. which is really stupid, it's only two more days till it's over. i should be jumping up and down and be totally eager to finish everything up. maybe it's that there's so much other crap that needs to be sorted out before before friday, before the weekend, and before i can leave tuesday evening. and it looks like the climbing plans for the weekend will get washed away by the rain.

anyways. plenty to do, better get cracking. and must book the ferry for next week!!!

oops, forgot to mention (how's that possible??): got a potential date for the viva! pretty late, in november, so tons of time to forget everything i did... and to write papers in between. and to start getting nervous...


draussen isses grau und regnerisch. und ich hab motivationsprobleme. ziemlich bescheuert, schliesslich sind's nur noch 2 tage bis das alles vorbei ist. eigentlich sollte ich froehlich durch die gegend laufen und begeistert die arbeit fertigschreiben. vielleicht liegt's daran, dass so viel anderes ansteht und erledigt werden muss. einiges vor freitag, anderes vorm wochenende oder bevor ich dienstag hier losfahren kann. und ausserdem sieht's so aus, als wuerde mein kletterwochenende mal wieder im regen versinken.

was soll's, ich mach hier mal besser weiter. und ich muss unbedingt die faehre fuer naechste woche buchen!!!

oh, fast haette ich's vergessen: ich hab einen termin fuer die verteidigung! ziemlich spaet, erst im november. genug zeit, um alles zu vergessen... und in der zwischenzeit paper zu schreiben. und um ultranervoes zu werden...

t-3

sooo tired. in bed after 1am last night, awake again at 6.30. can't be healthy!

to do today: do all the figures i still need to change. tidy up the background chapter. tidy up the discussion of the last results chapter and add a paragraph to the conclusions. and order kit for norway. urgent!! write two funding applications (not job related). answer emails re norway. don't forget to eat, drink and sleep, and that i have to be on the river at 6.

originally, i planned to submit monday or tuesday next week. then, when things suddenly went really smoothly, i decided to submit already friday. yesterday, i got an email, that the postgrad office is moving and therefore shut mon+tues. lucky me!

UPDATE: celebrations will take place friday in the free press from 7pm onwards! if you want to know what i'm like when i'm drunk, this might be your chance! although, i'll probably be my controlled self and stop after 3 pints or so...