{"id":575,"date":"2011-01-21T22:31:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T02:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2011-01-21T22:31:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-22T02:31:57","slug":"film-the-kings-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Film – The King’s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Huh boy! I am done with grad school. The defense was fun, I talked for about 20 minutes and then we’ve had an hour and a half of discussion. My mom and Chris say that I did well. Anyhow, I’ve made the updates, printed and handed in the thesis and now I am done.<\/p>\n

First thing I did was revel in euphoria, then I hit an existential crisis. For eight years I described myself as a grad student, but now, what am I? Then I was Ok because I am still a relation to a whole stack of people some of which rely on my quite heavily and I am still a full time engineer which is plenty. Then I went to get my graduation gifts. I got a nice serving set and a mighty good stack of fabric:<\/p>\n

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\"CIMG6572\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pretty!<\/p>\n

Anyhow, living without the nagging feeling that I should drop everything that I am doing to finish my thesis is strange, but I can get used to it. I am getting into the projects that I have been planning for a while, but did not want to start before I was finished with school. So, you know what my next foray into learning is? Spinning! As in learn to spin and ply wool fibre on a handspindle. Useful? No, but it does not have to be! I have finished my serious education and I can do whatever I want (within reason).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Huh boy! I am done with grad school. The defense was fun, I talked for about 20 minutes and then we’ve had an hour and a half of discussion. My mom and Chris say that I did well. Anyhow, I’ve made the updates, printed and handed in the thesis and now I am done. First […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering-princess","category-film","category-general","category-higher-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p278IQ-9h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bojnberry.ca\/~boj\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}