Two weeks notice

Two weeks from today my dissertation must go to my committee and all of the appropriate paperwork must go to the graduate school. I am making incremental progress, though not at the speed I had hoped.

• Write Abstract
• Write Acknowledgements
• Write "Contributions of Authors"
• Compile Table of Contents
• Finish writing Introduction chapter and draft and format Figs 1-3
• Get reprint permission from publisher of Chapter 2
• Complete revisions on Chapter 3 from A, C, S
• Get and complete revisions on Chapter 4 from G, S, S
• Get and complete revisions on Conclusions chapter from G
• Compile and format bibliography
• Compile and format appendix
• Proofread pre-text, intro, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, conclusions
• Format chapters uniformly
• Format Chapter 3 figures
• Format Chapter 4 figures
• Compile complete PDF and paginate
• Send to committee

In my defense, in the past day or two, I've also filled out the paperwork to be paid hourly for September (my fellowship is up), found out what I need to do before I can officially start my post-doc, gotten the exit forms from my department, helped make a figure for a paper on which I'm 5th author, watched Serenity (there's a female mechanic) , and eaten too much pizza.