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Working out the dessert bill last night with friends, it suddenly hit me how profound my mind thinks this move will be:

I thought, "We'd better make sure to spend all these one-dollar bills before we move to Chicago, where they don't take them."

Now logically, of course, I know that Chicago is in fact part of the U.S., and that dollars are quite likely legal currency there.

But the last time I wasn't living in NYC, I was traveling the world for a year and living out of a backpack. Moves, for me, generally involve being in a place where I don't speak the language and they use prettier money.

This will, I suspect, take some adjustment.

So, the one remaining hurdle is actually depositing the dissertation, after said minor revisions. I met with my advisor today to discuss what he wanted those revisions to be.


His argument, it turns out, is that this is a dissertation that people will want to read - as a dissertation. They will download it, or ask for it when I look for jobs and things, if it isn't published by then, and so forth, and therefore, it needs to be in as good shape and as polished as possible.

So I'm not depositing it on Friday. Instead, I'll spend much of the next two weeks trying to incorporate as many of the committee's non-enormous comments as possible - "adjusting," as my advisor puts it, rather than adding or subtracting substantial amounts.

Not that I'm spending the next two weeks moving into a new apartment in a new city, getting and crate-training a puppy, revising an article, or prepping for 2 classes or nothing.

Sigh. Just back from vacation, and the next month's going to cause me to need another one...

In more positive news, the one good thing about moving post-wedding is that many of the things you go through have positive associations.

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