woo hoo woo hoo woo hoo!!!

[aesc]

I passed my oral defense! I'm now officially ABD!*^ Eeeeeee!!! *runs around like an idiot*

* = All But Dissertation.
^ = not ADB (which is what I typed the first time), which is A Dog's Breakfast. Still cool, but different.

My excitement cannot be contained by text!

And now if you'll excuse me...




I am going to go play some golf!



Or maybe just pass out :>

Comments

[siria]

You are so awesome! ♥ So awesome that if Rodney had been presiding over your defence, it would have consisted of one question: Dear Aitch, how are you so awesome? *smishes*

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I think Rodney's question would be, "Oh my God, am I in some freakish alternate reality where I'm supposed to be an English professor?" :D

It also gives me great delight to think about the poor students who have Rodney on their committees and cower behind their notes and exam papers while he wonders what forces would have to come together to get him to grant them the right to pass their exams and work on their dissertations.

asd;lkjf I just love academic!Rodney, really.

[siria]

I would like to see the freakish alternate reality where Rodney is an English professor :D He would have such huge, wanky, post-modernist arguments and roll his eyes every time anyone mentions Shakespeare, and be terribly, terribly snide at conferences and seminars, and steal all the bread rolls at institute launches.

Oh god, am just back from an institute launch and have been reminded all over again of why I do not like to wear heels for that length of time. Oh my god, ouch.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I would like to see the freakish alternate reality where Rodney is an English professor

Me tooooooo.....

He would have such huge, wanky, post-modernist arguments and roll his eyes every time anyone mentions Shakespeare, and be terribly, terribly snide at conferences and seminars, and steal all the bread rolls at institute launches.

Yes yes yes he would!!! Students would live in fear of his classes, which would be hugely theory-oriented and require four major anthologies plus a 400-page coursepack, and if you utter the words "New Criticism" anywhere around him and you're a graduate student? You will be obliterated.

John on the other hand... hm. Russian literature and language, and he doesn't get why all the sophomore and junior girls in the Russian department or the World Lit. program (and some who aren't even English or lit. majors at all) flock to classes like 19th Century Russian Poets or Dostoevsky in Translation.

[siria]

And Rodney gets all twitchy around Professor Sheppard because that hair, how can that hair flourish in an academic environment? With his stupid t-shirts with their stupid slogans and his carefully bohemian black-framed glasses and the stupidly distracting way he chews on his lower lip while he's reading a very battered, dog-eared copy of War and Peace.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Heee. Or. OR.

John is a professor in popular culture studies, which Rodney just... just no. They watch B-movies and commercials and think X-Men represents a legitimate line of academic inquiry.

"Superman, actually," John says to him one day during a department meeting.

"Oh, in that case, it's perfectly okay to waste classroom space on it then," Rodney snaps.

[siria]

Hahahah, oh my god, John totally wrote his thesis on Back to the Future and, like, its influence on the representations of science and time travel in popular culture, didn't he? When he found out about it, Rodney's head EXPLODED.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, yis! Rodney's head exploded all over his office, and then exploded again when he discovered that John actually got it published, and that his second monograph was on the politics of the Cold-War era comic book, and by "well-received" John means "won a bunch of awards."