nori maki, MSc.

catharsis!

today was what they call a tremendous day.

text & context was cancelled, so i was able to finish up my final thesis corrections early in the morning. my second reader had returned the manuscript to my supervisor, who'd relayed that 'there is not much by way of corrections,' which was great news, but before i actually laid eyes on the manuscript, i had no idea whether he was basing that judgment solely on the amount of ink on the paper. i had paranoid spells of wondering if it'd be covered in short comments that would take a lot of time to correct. 'rewrite,' for instance, or 'this is all wrong.'

it was just a few casualties of editing here and there. it took me about 25 minutes to fix up the thesis, another hour to distill it, then yet another hour waiting for kinko's to print it up (77 dollars for three copies!?).

i had a design midterm, but besides one question that i sort of blanked out on, the rest of the questions were pretty awesome. 'what is CMYK?'

i haven't had a midterm like that in a long time. i love my design instructor.

anyway, right before i left harbour centre, ZBP came by with thomas's (well, now my) computer! yeah, the one i'd been waiting since the end of september for. i haven't played with it yet, but i've got it.

as soon as i got onto ubc campus, it was a whirlwind of errands: get thesis signed by my second reader, drop off dmac's prayer flags and basil's tickets at the newspaper, get thesis signed by supervisor, run to the faculty of graduate studies...

i got in by the skin of my teeth; at 3:56. the office closes at 4, officially. i thought they were going to give me a hard time about there being colour in my thesis, but the lady reviewing my thesis didn't really say much about it at all.

'so you know this colour won't show up in microfiche, right?'

'yeah, i know.'

'okay. i just wanted to make sure you knew.'

she signed some forms, accepted my thesis, and now i have an MSc!

i went and had a great long talk with the hilariously flamboyant grad secretary, then i ran into MTh on the way out the building, who bought me tea as we sat and caught up for a while.

got to chat with dmac for a bit, then went to say hi to my sweetie in the lab. he ended up relenting after not too much arm-twisting and came out to dinner with me at the vietnamese noodle house. i haven't had dinner with my sweetie in a long time.

finally, the night sky was almost completely clear -- perfect conditions to see the lunar eclipse.

oh, and thomas should be getting into town sometime tonight. whee!

now, i am at home, wrapped in a blanket, warm and happy.

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i have been invited to no fewer than three different election-watching parties. i am torn.