Nearly there

Hello! If you're still here - thanks for waiting! (and sorry about the thick layer of dust that has accumulated on my blog pages while I've been gone. I do hope none of you have allergies. If so, do please feel free to sneeze quietly in a corner.)

So, as I have been chained to a desk for the past few weeks, I'm afraid the only thing I have created recently, and can therefore show you a picture of, is this:


Two shiny copies of my dissertation, printed and bound and ready for the off on Thursday. It kind of does what it says on the tin. I'd share more of it, if only it was a bit more interesting. I wish I had degree stuff that was as amazing and visually-shareable as Gina's stunning work. But I don't. I do have quite a nice map in appendix K, but other than that - fairly bland.

But the main thing is that it is done, all 17,500 words of it (or 25,000 including the appendices, or 25million including all the thousands of drafts I made, and the bizarre notes I left for myself on iddy biddy bits of paper). And now all I have to do is:

1. make sure it doesn't spontaneously combust before Thursday, and
2. try to stop worrying that I've accidentally typed a really rude swear word on page seven. Which is fairly unlikely, but you never know.

Blimey, though, I have new-found respect for authors - how anybody writes entire books is beyond me. I know I couldn't write that much. Although some of you may find that hard to believe after ploughing through some of my more rambling blog posts ;o)

And on that note, I think I'd better shut up :o)

Might go and check page seven again, just to be on the safe side...