So, uh. Doctorate accomplished! Waiting on my list of corrections. I've been told I may need to gently prod the department into giving them to me. I have a few months to finish them, in any case. All in all, it was an almost disconcertingly painless experience.
I'm currently occupying my time with building an online archive for the journal of the H.G. Wells Society. It's fun work, though it took me a long time to get back into the swing of web design. I've hopefully gotten most of the programming out of the way now, so now it's just figuring out how to upload and organise the issues. I've also been asked to maybe update the Society's main website as well, which is should be fun and a little more straightforward, considering it doesn't require the installation of a huge journal framework, which the other site did. (It is also fairly in need of a facelift, so I'm kind of itching to make it pretty). And hey, maybe then the Society will hire me for more work! I like work.
Tomorrow I leave for Prague to go toodle around with the choir, sing some things, and drink good Czech beer. After that, however, I will continue with the Wells project and then actually start looking at the long-term job market (and probably sinking into a pit of despair in the process, argh). Oh, and also I have to start writing some articles for publication. That will be more fun.
This continues to be a very strange time. But at least I can sign off as "Dr" now.
