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26 May 2008

I passed my PhD defense! You can't call me Dr. Grouse until July though.

post by: grouse at: 09:32 | 39 comments

Congratulations!

posted by brujita 26 May | 09:44

I always knew you were good with a sword.

posted by jonmc 26 May | 09:48

Way to be! Now what?

posted by netbros 26 May | 09:50

Congrats! Do you have a lot of corrections?

posted by LunaticFringe 26 May | 09:51

Are you grouse for the bird or the crankiness? ;-)

posted by brujita 26 May | 09:52

I have about 15 minor corrections to make.

netbros, I think I'm going to move to Seattle for a postdoc this autumn! Between now and then I'm going to write papers, and travel! And use all those exclamation marks I left out of the thesis!

posted by grouse 26 May | 09:53

The bird, brujita.

posted by grouse 26 May | 09:54

Awesome news! Congratulations! (There I used some of those exclamation points for you ;-) )

posted by miss-lapin 26 May | 09:59

Great. . .I hope you go out and celebrate appropriately!

posted by danf 26 May | 10:02

wow congratulations!!!

posted by small_ruminant 26 May | 10:03

Woo! Congrats!

posted by gaspode 26 May | 10:10

YAY! Major major accomplishment. Big congratulations!

posted by Miko 26 May | 10:49

That's fantastic! Great work, grouse.

posted by BoringPostcards 26 May | 11:08

Many congratulations. What an achievement.

You can't call me Dr. Grouse until July though.

And then I will call you Dr. Grouse, PhD, VVST (Very Very Smarty Trousers)

posted by elizard 26 May | 11:09

Congratulations! That's great!

posted by Claudia_SF 26 May | 11:13

Grouse, that's awesome. Congratulations, and enjoy your travels and paper-writing!!

posted by Sil 26 May | 11:18

Congrats!

posted by dismas 26 May | 11:22

YAY! Well done, well done!

posted by Stewriffic 26 May | 11:25

Congratulations. I can't imagine being in your shoes, just getting a masters degree almost killed me. You must feel great. Take some time off. Drink. Enjoy life again.

posted by octothorpe 26 May | 11:34

Fantastic, grouse! Congrats!

posted by chewatadistance 26 May | 11:36

Yay! Congrats!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted by rhapsodie 26 May | 12:08

Bullshit. I can call you whatever I want, whenever I want, MONSIGNOR GROUSE, ESQ. III.

posted by Eideteker 26 May | 12:20

Time to bust out the champagne! Well done, kudos!

posted by Joe Invisible 26 May | 12:32

Congratulations! Well done!

I'm defending my Master's thesis this Friday. I still have a few things left to do before I can do this, though, but these are (hopefully) mere formalities. And hopefully, all goes well.

posted by Daniel Charms 26 May | 13:00

Holy shit. Congrats, Mr. Grouse! Screw that. I'll call you Dr. Grouse now, Dr. Grouse. You are SO Dr. Grouse!

posted by brina 26 May | 13:14

Dr. Grouse! It hurts when I do this! What should I do, doctor? Dr. Grouse?

Dr. Grouse?

WHEE! CONGRATS!!!!!!

posted by taz 26 May | 13:17

Good on you, mate.

posted by essexjan 26 May | 14:47

Wow, what a milestone!! Congratulations!!

posted by redvixen 26 May | 14:51

Is There A Doctor In The House?! Why, yes there is, right here!

A truly awesome accomplishment. Congrats!!! Also, can you write me anot to get out of gym class?

posted by MonkeyButter 26 May | 14:55

w00t!

posted by deborah 26 May | 16:04

Thanks everyone! I assure you I have been celebrating!

posted by grouse 26 May | 20:32

i will stick to the "The Grouse."

posted by ethylene 26 May | 20:38

ethylene, I hope you will.

posted by grouse 27 May | 02:31

Wonderfully Awesome!

posted by mightshould 27 May | 06:59

I just saw this - congratulations!

posted by rainbaby 27 May | 16:00

Wooo-hooooo!!! Excellent work!

posted by theora55 27 May | 22:27

Woooooo! Huge bug deal, ~~doctor!~~ Grouse! Congratulations! Exclamation point!

posted by Elsa 27 May | 22:29

D'oh! "Huge big deal." Obviously.

posted by Elsa 27 May | 22:30

If only I had included the insect study I did at one point in the thesis. Then it would have been a huge bug deal too.

posted by grouse 28 May | 15:11

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