I'm grateful to my printer for printing 472 pages -- albeit with a newly installed ink cartridge -- without jamming: that is, two full copies of my dissertation. I'll mail them to San Francisco Theological Seminary in the morning. Then two anonymous, independent readers have one month to get back to me with their (hopefully-not-too-harsh) comments. For those into statistics, I'm at 58,134 words, 236 pages, 3,607 lines, 1,221 paragraphs, and 354,021.

I'm currently cleaning up the citations/bibliography. My advisor has approved the content. I need to read through one more time for typos (currently 230 pages). I hope to mail it out next week to the independent readers, who have one month to get back to me. I'm ready to be done, but I'm way ahead of the Dec 1 deadline to graduate in May 2012. Thankfully I can work on my porch; it's 63 degrees at 11:30p.m.!