Livre d'Or

Oh man, I cooked so many amazing meals when I was "writing up". I like the rest of your points too, although even trying to be as calm as possible about the job market, the fact that 90% of people with PhDs in my field (anthropology) don't go on to get anthropology jobs really put me in a panic, and so I retrained to use the skills I'd learned during the PhD (namely languages). I think this was a good long-term decision, but I wish I'd actually finished the PhD before doing so. Retraining and working and doing post-viva major corrections has only been possible through not really doing the corrections until the last minute.