a quiet milestone

i finally handed in my first draft of the thesis. it has taken me about 6 months to write 245 pages and just over 90 000 words. of course this will need to be trimmed. there were moments of inspired writing (if i dare say so myself) but there are also chunks of highly uninspired dribble. of course i told myself that i would polish the latter before subjecting my supervisors to it but due to time constraints, i just cannot do it, much to the bruising of my pride.

so i turned it in; all 245 pages of it, spiral bound to make my supervisors’ task a bit easier (and to make up for the inadequacies of my writing). it went in at 2.30pm today.

i had looked forward to having this tome lifted off my shoulders for i kept reminding myself that in fact the first complete draft is the most difficult stage towards submission. but yet i don’t feel elated. what an anti-climax.

so it is onward to the next task at hand – preparing the appendix.