The email went something like this:<\/p>\n
—
\nDear (Committee Chair), <\/p>\n
Guess what! I’m not dead!<\/p>\n
Here’s my second attempt at producing a dissertation. It incorporates all that stuff we talked about months ago, plus other stuff. <\/p>\n
Also, I was thinking that instead of defending this work of mine, we could just go through pictures of me in a bathing suit, having each committee member make comments about all my bodily imperfections. We could spend hours on my legs alone. <\/p>\n
It would just make the whole affair less intimate than actually talking about my work. <\/p>\n
So, can we defend this thing?<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
And now we wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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