Brain Child

I can't help but brag. Today a copy of my dissertation arrived in the mail, printed on archival paper and properly bound, just as it is shelved in the library.

The stats...

Pages: 403
Paragraphs: 2.186
Lines: 12.333
Words: 136.415
Characters (no spaces): 776.027
Characters (with spaces): 911.634
First day of writing: Oct 6, 2008
Last day of writing: Aug 2, 2010
Days between those two dates: 666
Number of actual writing days: 94
Activities on non-writing days, in order of frequency, from high to low: "nothing" (vacationing, knitting, socializing, working out, cooking...), teaching, feeling guilty about not writing, research related activities (reading, taking notes, thinking)
Average number of words written per writing day: 1.451
Self-imposed goal of words written per writing day: 1.500
Date of submitting the first draft: Aug 10, 2010
Date of submitting the final (pre-defense) version: Nov 1, 2010
Time spent between these two dates revising the dissertation: every waking moment not spent teaching or keeping bodily functions going
Date of defense: Nov 19, 2010
Revisions required by committee after defense: 19 typos, one factual mistake
Time it took to complete final revisions: less than an hour
Occurrence of situation in which this few revisions are required: rare (per anecdotal knowledge)
Post-defense feeling: disbelief
Feeling today: "glad it's over," pride
Estimated number of months by which finishing the dissertation was delayed because author was knitting (a hobby the author picked up in March 2009): three