Hold that fanfare.

[kickaha]

I'm not walking in May. Period. My advisor and I had a major miscommunication... to defend, one must have a ready dissertation document. Them's the rules. They've allowed *one* student to bypass that and that's only because he was living in Brazil and his employer was going to fire him if he didn't successfully defend, so they let him fly up for the defense on a last-minute thing, and he could finish writing it later. Several years later, he still hasn't submitted the completed document, so they're not going to let it happen again.

I was working under the understanding that I would be able to defend once I had the research and results, and could spend the summer writing the last 100 of the 300 pgs or so. Not so. This means there's no way I can make the April 15th deadline to walk in May. C'est la vie.

Time to call the folks and tell them to cancel their plane tickets.

Fuck.

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[madpiratebippy.livejournal.com]

::hugs::

I'll break kneecaps if you need. I can be all scary and ghetto and GRRRR-like. Or I can give you a hug and wish I could feed you steak or chicken soup or something.

That sucks, hon.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Thanks, it turns out it's really not as bad as I thought, but still, a bit jarring.