I just handed my thesis in, and what a giant anti-climax that was! I felt ike Aspley Cherry-Garrard delivering penguin eggs to the Royal Geographic Society (or whatever it was) after he had collected them from Antarctica, with much loss of digits, life and sanity etc. Read The Worst Journey in the World and you'll know exactly what I mean..
anyway, it is done, the point of no return has been reached. This should be a landmark point in my PhD journey, and this blog, the moment it was all heading for (before the final exam of course), but this is possibly imposing too teleological an interpretation upon the doctoral experience, which is processual....