TSS: D-Day approaches…

Happy Sunday, all! Just a quick check from me this week:

D-Day is this week (finally)… the “D” standing for “Dissertation Defense”, of course. I’ve been on semi-vacation for the past two weeks, partly giving practice talks to various audiences, and partly taking it easy, spending time with family, etc. But now we’re down to it, and in only a few days, I’ll have to summarize the past [embarrassingly large number of] years of my life in a one-hour seminar.

I’m… not all that nervous, actually. And it’s making me nervous that I’m not more nervous. But rather than stressing out about it, I’ve been taking the weekend off, going to see “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” last night (really really good, a very nice job of adapting the book, and actually did a better job with the pacing than did the book), reading the new Naomi Novik book (which I haven’t gotten very far in, despite it being quite enjoyable; I totally fell asleep and took a nap yesterday while I meant to be reading it), and working on the roughly six gajillion book reviews which I am behind on.

So, I hope everyone else has a fun and exciting week ahead of them… and hopefully by the next Sunday Salon post I write, I will be requiring all commentors to address me as “Dr. Fyrefly.” (Okay, probably not the part about the comments. But still.)