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Above: state of workspace after final revision of PhD thesis is complete (detail). 80,000+ words+234 pages +4 years+3 months +1 very dedicated husband who went through it all with a fine comb to fix every single typo, footnote and comma = in the immortal words of Daniel Plainview: “I’m finished”. I’m now going to drink lots of milkshake wine and collapse. Zoom

Above: state of workspace after final revision of PhD thesis is complete (detail).

80,000+ words
+234 pages
+4 years
+3 months 
+1 very dedicated husband who went through it all with a fine comb to fix every single typo, footnote and comma

=

in the immortal words of Daniel Plainview: “I’m finished”.

I’m now going to drink lots of milkshake wine and collapse.

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Posted on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Tagged with: PhDacademiaacademic on the verge of a nervous breakdownI'm finishedDaniel Plainview is my spirit guide
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    (almost) in! It seems odd...someone you haven’t met, but I am: Congratulations Irene! I...
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I'm a woman who loves films, baseball, whales, good food, and guys in ties.
I teach literature, film and cultural studies at university.
I worship at the Church of Springsteen.
Sometimes I write reviews.
One day soon you may call me Doctor.

Byronic
[bai'ra:-nik] 1. Characteristic of, or after the manner of Byron or his poetry. 2. quasi-n. pl. [after Philippics.] Declamatory utterances or invectives in the style of Byron. 3. Byronic hero: prominent literary character type of the Romantic period, whose characteristics include: extraordinary intelligence and perception; high level of education and intellectual prowess; arrogance; cunning and manipulation; emotional conflictedness; moodiness; self-criticism and introspection; self-destructive behaviour; aesthetic sophistication; dark mysterious beauty; powers of attraction; seductiveness and sexual perversion; world-weariness; distaste for social institutions and norms; disrespect of social ranks; being an outcast, an outlaw, or an exile.

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