Mission: Complete

The last few days were hell - involving 60 hours without sleep, spending 2 nerve-wracking hours at the copy shop (thanks to ms word), not eating at all, throwing a whole chapter in the bin only 2 days before I had to hand it in... - but somehow I managed. There is no denying that everyone told me that the last few days would be like that but I had sworn to myself that I'd finish my thesis DAYS before the deadline...

I handed it in this morning at exactly 10.34 am.

Here a few facts...

title: The narrative creation of fantasy worlds in the novels of J.K. Rowling, P. Pullman and C.S. Lewis
pages: 129
footnotes: 341
number of books/articles I read: 178
number of mistakes that I found after I handed it in: 3 so far (in the bibliography, so not too bad...)

Friends told me that now a feeling of "relaxation" should start - this has not happened so far. I don't know why but maybe this is because I am not really satisfied with it. Rewriting a whole chapter in two days is not the best of all ideas, but not rewriting it - the feeling would have been worse. Unfortunately the thesis counts 40% of the overall grade for my degree.

All right, I stop complaining now and the only thing I can do now is "wait and see" (probably till July!) to get the results. A friend of mine uses to call me "Paniknudel" (panic-noodle/pasta) and I guess he is right.

I just want to say thank-you to all who endured my bad temper over the last month or so, all who were willing to spell-check my thesis and all who told me again and again that I can do it. That really helped. I promise to be better next time ;-)