My PhD thesis is printed, collected, signed, collated with CD-ROMs and paperwork, packaged up and posted. So the thesis is now complete, at my end anyway. Hopefully. I'll be absolutely sure when I have word back from Canberra that they got it okay and I did all the admin correctly.

This means, PhD wise, there's nothing more to do until it is examined. In a few months time I'll get back a report, which will probably have a whole bunch of corrections to make. If it goes well, the suggested corrections will be "minor", which means the examiners don't want to see it again... which effectively means I pass. If "major" corrections are needed, I'll need to resubmit... which isn't really a fail, but it means I'll be sweating for months doing serious PhD work. Not good. If they really hate it, then I'm in big trouble. I doubt it'll be that bad, but fingers crossed anway.

I should now be free to worry about new, 2009 business things, rather than finishing old 2008 things now. One less thing to worry about, but replaced with several dozen more. [wink]