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One more important thing happened right around Thanksgiving--I deposited my dissertation!  I had finished writing it a few days before Abby was born, but I had to give the committee time to read and tell me if I needed to do any revisions.  They took their sweet time (and one member at first said he couldn't get to it until after Thanksgiving break, which would have meant I wouldn't make the deadline for December graduation.  I told him "hey, I understand--I guess I just won't graduate in December and will have to pay tuition and fees next semester" and that sufficiently guilted him into hurrying up.  Actually, I discovered later that I wouldn't have had to actually register for spring in order to deposit spring semester, but I didn't know that at the time and it definitely helped my case!)  Anyways, the graduate college just had a few minor revisions for me, and then it was officially done!  Woohoooo!!  I did still have work to do for my Science manuscript, but at least I officially finished and whatever happened, I had a PhD!