michiexile | Things I feel good about (Reply)

My thesis is seriously shaping up. I seem to be able to keep the February 20th deadline nicely.
All the rest of the things I need to do in order to get the final run on my PhD work done are already sorted out.
I'm about to finish my PhD. Hot DAMN. I mean ... seriously ... I've been here some 22 months and I'm handing in my THESIS!
People want to hear me talk about my research. Enough to pay for flights and hotels and stuff.
People me to talk to them about THEIR research. Enough to pay for flights and hotels and stuff. And these people do Really Damn COOL research too.
I landed a grant of $500 for that Quite Cool Conference at MSRI, Berkeley. So I'm going there too.
The grant proposal I plan to write while in Stockholm has some damn sexy keywords in it. I think I might even get money for it.
I'm pushing 35 job applications now. I filed with Wolfram Research (their application has some REALLY nifty puzzles you get to solve too), with Ohio State - where a doctoral uncle of mine works, and my advisor will put in a good word for me, with Oakland U - where they do a lot of computational and combinatorial algebraic geometry and topology, and with Toledo, which lies Really Close to where Susanne'll end up.
John Palmieri thinks my program is cool and wants to use it for his own research. Seriously! Palmieri wrote a few of the papers I -learned- this stuff from!
My Really Old Rum tastes Really Good.

Oh - and I don't have to get out of bed tomorrow morning. This is especially good since I've been drinking a bit (2 pints Staropramen black, 2x2cl Becherovka and 2-3cl of the Really Old Rum) and it's already past 2am.

ETA: I also am going to get money for that second topology conference at UIUC. While I'm at it. I really will be doing nothing but talk about my research nonstop the entire US tour.