tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post870959666401769791..comments2024-01-17T02:39:06.048-05:00Comments on rude truth: JJThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14920416765778868736noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-46090999866941000262009-10-13T09:43:55.367-05:002009-10-13T09:43:55.367-05:00oh, and P.S. I don't know who my margin-checke...oh, and P.S. I don't know who my margin-checker will be but I do know that that delightful task has been delegated to a desperately money-hungry PhD student job. I'm not at that point yet--the defense copies don't have to be "perfect" copies--but when I get there I will once again praise God for the wonderful human ingenuity that has produced Endnote. :)JJThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14920416765778868736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-11824202546756101022009-10-13T09:40:41.638-05:002009-10-13T09:40:41.638-05:00follow-up: Monday morning call to campus mailroom ...follow-up: Monday morning call to campus mailroom confirms that my defense copies were found, and call to PhD Studies confirms receipt. Yay.JJThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14920416765778868736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12478084.post-21496476991156360012009-10-10T17:43:33.743-05:002009-10-10T17:43:33.743-05:00Everybody who has been through this will sympathiz...Everybody who has been through this will sympathize. The week of my defense, I took a copy to the graduate dean's office. The graduate secretary plopped it down in front of her, opened her desk drawer and got out a ruler and a rubber thumb cover, snapped the cover on her thumb emphatically, and measured every margin of every page of 326 pages while I stood and watched and sweated.Carissehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15332224911730909869noreply@blogger.com