dear good bob reeder! i've just this second received his dissertation on email! the defence is over, he's made his farewells, packed up and loaded up the car, and is even now driving up north like a maniac to his parents and the love of his life! i'm so, so glad it all worked out so wonderfully for him. i shall call him and holler my congratulations when it is day for him!

and seeing his dissertation really makes me jump about - i love seeing other people's work - it makes me tingle with excitement for them and hopeful for myself - one day, just one day, i'll get there too! i'll be a real literary scholar like them too!

now i shall go get his disseration printed out and bound so i can settle down in bed to read it. and figure out how to get him to sign it!