Oh, I forgot to tell you guys! I finished my edumication. I wrote down everything I learned, fixed up the margins and the linespacing (what a plague!) and handed it in. Then I spent the summer peregrinating, collaring people to tell them about it. And finally I made that long pilgrimage back to Edinburgh, Scotland, and then I stood up and defended myself for a few hours, and then they slapped me on the back and taught me the secret handshake of scientists.

It was such a big milestone I couldn't even write about it. It's an unaccountable validation: no one can ever again tell me I am not a computer scientist!

What a relief. Now that that's out of the way, I don't even have to act like a computer scientist! I can do anything I want. Hot-air balloonist, lathe operator, type designer! Tee-riffic. Can't wait to start goofing around again.