Thesis update

My apologies for not updating the blog sooner, it became clear after the weekend that family members were wondering if I manged to finish my thesis last Friday.  Indeed, I did!  Unfortunately, after that I wanted to have nothing to do with a computer, hence the silence.  My thesis was printed and handed over to my committee members to review prior to my defense in two weeks.  Now all I have left before I get their feedback is a presentation to put together and a poster.  Unfortunately, the poster is for a conference in Europe and our travel plans have us going through Dublin, whose airspace has been one of the slowest to re-open.  The conference organizers seem hopeful that enough will return to normal by this weekend when it starts that they will be holding it.  I just got off the phone with the travel agency and the news is we wait and see.  Until the flight is cancelled through Dublin we can't do anything about changing it to go through a more southern European city.  I'm not doing very well with the waiting process and find myself constantly checking for updates.  I had to go back to a cafe, without internet, this morning to get anything done.