rather anti-climactic i would have to say

so it is obviously past march 20, or D-day, as it certainly felt like, and that means i've finished my defense (thankfully finished positively). therefore, I am apparently now a PhD. it certainly doesn't feel like it. on the other hand it DOES feel freaking awesome to be done with it! (granted, i still have a bunch of crap i have to change in the text before submitting it to the university next week, but whatever). In celebration, I have set up the office at Elena's (where i previously worked on my thesis) as a sewing room, and I finally got the chance to use the wonderful yarn swift that my dad and tejas made for me over thanksgiving. (it basically holds yarn hanks and rotates slowly as you pull to make the yarn into a ball, instead of having to wrap the hank around your knees and inevitably end up with a big knotted mess). I may have jumped the gun a little with the room conversion, as i still have to do the thesis revisions and write another paper or two in the next month and a half, but i don't care. I plan to do a crap load of sewing in the next month and half as well.