I spent n years prostrate to the higher mind...

Thesis: defended.

(more later, heading to the pub)

Don't forget the brass!

Just saw these guys down the street from my office.

At long last...

Thesis: submitted.

Yesterday I dropped it off at the binders just in time to go see Romeo & Juliet at the Globe, which was wonderful. This afternoon I picked it up from the binders and dropped it off at the College Examinations Office. They promptly dispatched it to my examiners. (There is a rule, about which the college is emphatic, that I am not allowed to send my thesis directly to my examiners. I have no idea why, but apparently it's important.) Now my supervisor will schedule my viva which has to be at least a month (and no more than three months) from today. Meanwhile just about everyone (in number theory) is at Park City, except for me.

Right now it's time for a deep breath and some Belgian beer.

now that he’ll never sing another note

This one's even better.

I thought Ray Smuckles summed it up nicely.