slowly shutting down

I'm on my last legs.

My brain has been slowly turning off the entire week; I think both my mind and body know that the end is near, and aren't cooperating much anymore.

I have about ten more pages to go over, and a conclusion still to write for my fourth (and last) chapter, before moving on to pore over the dreaded MLA handbook and get my bibliography into shape.

But then I'll be DONE! With a draft of my entire dissertation! To be delivered to my adviser tomorrow at 1:30pm.

And then I get to go on vacation, and wait, with fingers crossed (and lots of prayers uplifted), that my adviser and remaining reader will sign off.

And then I'll really be done, and will start obnoxiously introducing myself as "Dr. Maria" for about a month before my wonderfully patient hubby warns me that my big head is crowding him out of our townhome...

I can't wait.