Thesis Completed

I defended August 9- in all honest the oral exam wasn't nearly as tough as I had anticipated, although there were a few strange questions from my external: "which gene do you think would work best for creating a phylogeny?" (FYI, I didn't do any genetics or molec work during my thesis.). I also spoke before thinking, and told my supervisor that his question asking me to define a genus was "RATHER OBSCURE". After taking the thirty minutes or so to make the corrections to my thesis, it took a week to get all the printing and paperwork done. My thesis was submitted to the university last Thursday. Hopefully it will be bound and ready for pick up before I move.

Speaking of moving, movers are coming to pick up my stuff on August 30 and we have to vacate our apartment on August 31. We are going to try to spend the night of the 31st at a friend (who is kind enough to accept us and our cats) before flying out to Halifax on September 1st. We should be arriving in NS around 9:30pm. Furniture should be arriving on Sept. 3. Five days without furniture is a while, but much better than the last time when it took 12 days for our stuff to arrive in Guelph from Fredericton.