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It's going to be really weird to have a life that isn't consumed with this stuff. I imagine I will feel a little adrift! Yesterday the guy I've been trading chapters with asked if he could come to my filing party. Yes of course! I said. TBH such a thing hadn't entered my mind. I thought maybe I would try to get to Utah for Thxgvng, see my nephews and nieces. A filing party it will be, then. Except I have about three people I could invite, outside of my adviser and that guy. In the last five years I have become a tremendously isolated person. Maybe I'll shed that along with the dissertation-30. If I do have any kind of filing party, I will take all my diss-related recycling (old drafts, copies of articles I now have as PDFs), make a human form sitting in the lotus position and then burn it ritually. It will be the highlight - instead of cake, immolation. :D