If you offer me bread and I excitedly say yes, and you subsequently present me with a soft white abomination that is nothing but untoasted toast, then I swear on the gods of yeast that you will have made an enemy for this life and all your reincarnations. How dare you, how dare you.

books you drank up with your soul and animals you gave a home to and the plants you raised with your own fingers and rain tapping softly against your window at night will never break your heart. 

Dissertation: finished. || 17th of September, 2017.

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Written. Printed. Signed that I did not plagiarize the entire thing which is necessary for legal reasons but idiotic considering I cited sources for about every single sentence and read more than 120 articles and various books. Mailed for a horrendously high postal fee.

And hopefully arriving and submitted by Thursday. The old degree concludes, and I say this confidently looking at all the hours I put into this thesis, with great scientific work, and the new degree has started with so much new science to learn.

Sometimes academia and science gut you with a blunt knife, but other times you suddenly contribute actual insights and advance the knowledge of your field. And that’s just wild and goddamn fantastic.