Tomorrow I fly down for a few days in my college town to meet with a couple of my readers and file my dissertation.
Oh, such a very long process. Of course the last few months of drudgery and this and that paperwork and walking in graduation 3 months before filing has put me in such an endless liminal zone that it feels very anticlimactic. But I bet on Thursday when I walk into the Grad Div office and drop that 325 pages of very expensive acid-free 25 lb cotton paper on their desk that I will feel very very light and gazelle-like for a few minutes. Perhaps I will have a beer or six?
Yay me! W00t.
Congratulations Doctor!
(By the way, I have this rash on my arm …)
Paul, speaking frankly as your Doctor (of Philosophy in art history) I’d like to prescribe a six-pack of Black Butte Porter for that aesthetically-displeasing rash. Take six and call me when you can stand to reconnect the phone.
So you’re now the world’s largest rodent with a doctorate in art history? Who was the previous holder of that title?
You sir (or is it madam?) are one very impressive giant water hamster. Congratulations!
I know a nice girl that would be perfect for you.
How the hell did I start channeling a Jewish mother?
I love art history! It was my minor.
Congratulations on your doctorate. What was your specialization?
You want fries with that?
Spavined Gelding, B.A., Art and Art History, Iowa, 1964.
[nerd]Do they have a Curl Office?[/nerd]
Does that mean you can now legally stick your finger up me bum?
Make sure you call the guys at Car Talk, they always get a kick out of Art History majors (the whole “You want fries with that?” mentioned above), and a doctorate will absolutely kill them.
Congratulations on the hard work!
Congratulations!
So, where will you be waiting tables?
(That last bit is from my wife, who got her MFA in Art History and promptly got a job - waiting tables).
Hey, Doc, it hurts everytime I do this …
Actually, my minor was in Art History, too. I find it endlessly useful. You know, like if I want Mrs. Lacha to just tune me out completely or something.
I am curious as to what you focused on for you dissertation. Congratulations on the impending doctorhood. Have you already defended you dissertation?
Congratulations, dr. capybara!
Hi-- been on planes all day. Nah, I don’t have to have a defense-- I just need my 3 readers to be happy enough to sign a piece of paper. It was northern Renaissance, 15th-c stuff (don’t want to go too much into it, as I’m on the market and don’t want potential employers with deep-internet-search-fu to know I’ve had sexy dreams about a cocker spaniel and used to play Dungeons and Dragons).
My husband always wanted me to call the Car Talk guys because of the art history thing, AND we have (or had until very recently-- so sad kaboom smoke and flames) a Volvo.
I will be adjunct-waiting-tables in BC. Could be worse.
It could be raining.
Congratulations! Remember to use your new powers only for good!