OMG I'm almost done

I finally got my thesis bounded and turned into my linguistics advisor. She said she loved my title. I'm getting my own copy of the thesis bounded as well... but I wanted mine to be hard bounded. My advisor said she didn't care so I got it done at our duplicating place so that I could give it to her by today, which only has spiral binding. To get hard binding, I had to go to the library and they're kind of slow/busy there... so I left my copy of the thesis there for them to bind. And I'm still waiting for it.... I dropped it off around 4:45 or so and now it's almost 7:00. They better not mess up... but at least it's like my own copy and no one else's.

I still have an oral exam tomorrow morning. The times for the oral exams on Wednesday did not work for me (some were early in the morning and I knew I'd be tired from working on other stuff [thesis, linguistic report, etc] and the later times were during one of my linguistics class.)

So I chose Friday at 10:00 AM as opposed to the 11:00 AM. I don't think it will be that long. They said an hour and my classmate is coming in at 11:00 to take his oral exam right after... but the thing is... there's an anthropology lunch and we were told to meet at 11:50... so that should mean it shouldn't take that long, right? Or only his oral exam will be shorter and mine will still be an hour? :(

The oral exam is for History of Anthropological Theory. Sounds scary, doesn't it? There's two professors. One of them is my anthropology advisor and the other is another anthro prof that I have had before in a previous class. My anthropology advisor is a picky hardass and the other is easy going. It's a nice balance. My advisor is pretty intimidating and scary. When I tell people that I have an oral exam and they ask who is giving it and I tell them it's with HIM, they always roll their eyes. It's like this mutual understanding of, "Oh god. I feel for you." Like even the duplicating lady gave me that look today while I was getting my thesis bounded. She asked if I was done and I said that I had one more thing, the oral exam. And when I mentioned his name, she gave this look and I asked if she knew him and she said, "Yes" and there was that "mutual understanding" again. When I went to turn in my thesis to my linguistics advisor, she also asked if I felt good that this was done and over with. I said no because I still have one more thing, the oral exam tomorrow morning. And she asked with who and I mentioned my anthro advisor and the other prof woman. She rolled her eyes and her head when I mentioned his name. "Sorry," she said, "I didn't mean to roll my eyes at you. It's just... you are fine. You're a wonderful student. Don't let him get to you. He really likes to challenge people and push people. So don't get discourage. I'm sure he knows you know your material. Don't worry about it!" But I told her it was ok and that everyone rolls their eyes when I mention his name. Hah! I remember one professor who said that he didn't know my anthro advisor too well, but he sees him at faculty meetings and all he knows about my advisor is that he uses big words and seems arrogant. That made me laugh... it feels good knowing that I'm not the only one who is sometimes scared of him; even other professors are scared of him.

I'm not THAT scared of him. He IS my advisor and I go to him for advice a lot (well I used to when I was a confused underclassman and didn't know what to double major in with anthropology, but then I decided to go with linguistics). He's a funny man, but in an academic and scholarly way.

But anyway, enough about him and that stupid oral exam. I'm almost there. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope I live through it!