it was only a matter of time

I knew it was bound to happen, I just didn't think it would happen quite so soon.

Last night, I had my first "finishing the dissertation" nightmare. Was industriously working away in my office one morning, when Benedikt comes in and announces that due to circumstances beyond everyone's control, it was not going to work out for me to defend in June and that, and he'd had to pull a lot of strings to make this possible, instead I was going to be defending that afternoon at 3pm. I had to print off a copy of the dissertation, as it currently is, warts, FIXMEs, incomplete chapters, and all, and that's what I would be grilled on in a few hours time.

It wasn't one of those "wake up too scared to go back to bed" or "ruins your entire night's sleep" kind of nightmares, because about half-way through I recognized it for what it was, so the actual experience was more amusing than scary/stressful, but now that I've had one, I'm sure there will be others over the course of the next 6 months...