Monday, February 27, 2012

D-day -4

In order to maximise the potential preparation stress for this week, I decided to spend the weekend on Bosön, trying to teach a bunch of skydivers how not to die. I think I succeeded to some extent - both regarding this week and regarding the not-dying-part.

I also learnt that a surprisingly large and random number of people are reading this blog. Apparently the opinions differ on whether my Thesis writing progress chart makes me seriously disturbed or nerdy in a charming way. I believe it's equal shares of both.

Since I'm as good as done with the presentation, my weird dreams are now focusing on the party (no tables, forgot to tell caterer that the party had been moved, and so on). To avoid more of those I did some party preparation stuff today. Like a little party booklet. The plan was to make it very casual with just a few songs and nothing else. To nobody's surprise I completely and utterly overdid it. To my defense I'd like to say that it was really fun to do and since I never had a party before I think I'm worth overdoing things. As a compensation I'm considering using handwritten post-it notes for placement cards. And just so you don't think that could be chic and charming, you should know that my hand-writing would make a real doctor proud.

Status on to-do-list:
  • Buy wine and beer and other things crucial for the disputation party (see picture below)
  • Decide on food and order it 
  • Make to-do-list of all the other little party-related things that need to be done - started
  • Read some Very Important Things - almost started
  • Think really hard about what I've really come up with (if any) - started
  • Finish presentation 
  • Decide on what to say in presentation - almost done!
  • Practice presentation at least once to get the timing right
  • Decide on what to wear during defense and party - thanks to supporting sister
  • Clean apartment since people will be visiting
  • Be instructor on BAS-kurs (course for fresh skydivers - completely not Thesis related)
  • Get rid of almost-but-not-quite-cold that has been in my system for over a week now
  • Make party song booklet
  • Make seating arrangement plan

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