Doctor has such a nice ring to it

I'm not sure if he's Doctor Captain Paul or Captain Doctor Paul. Either way, he passed his defense today and the Ph.D. is official. :)

Here's Paul with the goofball shirt I had made, doing the Vanna White pose with the book that served as the basis for his dissertation. The book, Methods for Real-Time Measurement of THMs and HAAs in Distribution Systems, Part 2 (yes, it's a sequel), is available on Amazon. At a mere $300, its Amazon.com sales rank is #2,006,143.



Gosh, five years for three little letters after his name. I don't think I would've made it without his reassurance that today would be here soon enough. He has a whole list of official acknowledgments of people that helped him get to this point. But some other acknowledgments need to be made, ones that won't make it into any books.

Among them: Vault Zero, for getting us up early and keeping us up late; Amtrak, for carting him to important conferences in Nola and Chicago; Excedrin Migraine, for fighting off the "What the heck am I doing here?" moments; the chocolate chip cookie recipe I got as a wedding gift, for helping keep a whole group of grad students happy; the bookbags that valiantly gave their short, nylon-stitched lives to carrying books and papers; and our unlimited T-Mobile plan, for Paul's long chats with me and much longer chats with his research advisor.

Congrats again, babe. You did it!