Graduation!

Well its finally here. I am defending my dissertation on Nov 13. That's a Friday. Friday the 13th. And no, I'm not superstitious, mostly. Graduation is on Dec 17. I will not have pictures as I am not attending as I am too broke to purchase the cap and gown (along with fees I still owe the school and have to pay before I graduate, dissertation paper, dissertation publishing fees, personal copies, etc etc etc so on and so forth.) I am too broke for any of it, but at least the commencement is optional so I can opt out. I am sad about this, surprisingly, since I didn't really want to do the whole ceremony. I guess I still wanted my picture in the full regalia though. PhD regalia is something to behold.

No job yet. Looking. I will be devoting all my time to it as soon as I defend. Next week. Aaaaah!