Fillet of Soul

Nail me up, boys -- it is finished! The defense is, anyway -- I was given a multitude of suggestions (and in the mouths of thesis committee members, that's read demands) for improvement of my paper, which is going to take quite a lot of time to implement, but the end's in sight! Very congenial, very helpful, not a one of 'em actively wishing me a total crushing failure. All over in under two hours. How to celebrate? Maybe a long line of Harvey Wallbangers, all the way down the bar...

Thanks again for the encouragement -- it did actually register through all that panicking this morning!