I’ve just emailed the final version of my thesis to the department.

I’ve spent most of today listening to my robotic overlord (his name is Alan) read out chunks of my thesis in the vain hope that I would better spot typos or errors that way. The idea — far too good to be my own, and I think stolen from Nick Anstead — is better in theory than in practice.

The rest of the day has been spent battling for BibTeX style files, and finally making up my own. I never realized how many bibliographic choices one has until I had to sit through the custom-bib dialog. Editor names reversed or firstname lastname? Proceedings and Collections in quotes or not? Years in brackets? Unfortunately, no optimal solution is known to exist: congealed preferences (mine and publishers’) seem to dominate.

Oh, I must just say a couple of things: Wheats is teh awsumz, David was never quiet, my flatmates suffered, and Bianca might even make it to the defence.

That is all. Goodnight.