how Liv got her PhD

I don't usually write blow-by-blow accounts of what I've been doing, but I want to record the details of yesterday for my own future reference as much as anything. Feel free to skip if this is boring; I know blackherring wanted to hear all the gory details, but I can see it might not be that fascinating to most people.

( memorable day )

Just to repeat a bit from the cut since this should be immediately visible: many thanks to compilerbitch for your perspective on my work; it came in very useful in the viva!

Today is the 16^th day, making two complete weeks and 2 days of the Omer

Whimsical

I have discovered that the username ewe was recently returned to the pool of available names. I'm really quite tempted to change to that, so I need you guys to help me make the decision. (Good usernames don't hang around very long, so if I wanted it, I'd have to act fairly fast.)

( reasons for and against )

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