This is Not a Drill

[homais]

So, I've been really busy/productive in the last month since I've posted. For one, I seem to actually have a dissertation now, one that I like, and my advisors like. I'll probably be able to defend the proposal in the next few months, and then I'll be ABD (which is academese for all-but Dissertation i.e. you have cleared all PhD requirements except

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[agriking]

Mmmm, a truck load of grant money. You know the way to my heart, sir.

[slit]

I'd never heard "abd al-Dissertation." That's so apt.
Cairo for a year or more sounds great.

[kishenehn]

Very cool! Cairo is a hell of a place.

[atthesametime]

Congratulations! And that photo looks like it could have been taken from my old apartment in Cairo.

[evaluna68]

Cool! Have a blast (not literally, I hope). We will be awaiting tales of your many adventures.