illuminating science

So, I just gave my supervisor a moderately good (in the sense of nearness to completion rather than Nobel prize material) draft of my thesis. It currently sits at a happy 142 pages, which go to about 180 once I include a final chapter that is currently a paper almost ready for publication. On Wednesday, I suddenly realised that I was actually pretty darn close to being finished - I’ve still got a bit to do, but I think (I hope!) that I’m almost done with new writing. The only thing I really have to do is write my conclusion, which will draw heavily on the conclusions from my published papers I have to think a bit more, though, about future directions that we want this work to go in.

Still, it’s a beautiful, rainy Friday afternoon, and I’m a pretty happy camper! 13 days and 11 minutes to go! (Okay, that’s technically until I send it to the printers - I’ll actually submit a few days after that

But you should go and congratulate Brett who submitted his today! First day of Spring and everything!