{"id":114,"date":"2006-04-07T09:51:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-07T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2006-04-07T09:51:13","modified_gmt":"2006-04-07T14:51:13","slug":"exam-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Exam, ho!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <b>finally<\/b> have an exam date set. May 5th it is! The email was pretty funny:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBecause [Examiner #3] was not available to participate as an examiner on Potato&#8217;s defense on Friday, May 5th, I contacted [New Examiner #3] yesterday to see if he was available to replace [Examiner #3]. He contacted me a few minutes ago to say yes &#8211; he is available. <\/p>\n<p>So I want to proceed with a defense date for Friday, May 5th.<br \/>\n(This e-mail supercedes all previous conversations &#8211; by phone or e-mail &#8211; about prospective dates that I have had with all parties involved with the defense.)<\/p>\n<p>The Public Lecture will be at 9 a.m. and the oral defense at 10 a.m. Room locations to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>An afternoon defense is possible as well but I plan to go with the a.m. if there are no objections.<\/p>\n<p>All of you ([Examiner #1, 2, and 3], and [Admin person] as Chair) have indicated that May 5th is doable. <i>[Supervisor] and Potato are available too.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That sort of afterthought quality to the italicized part (emphasis mine, naturally) is what&#8217;s so funny. What&#8217;s funnier is that while I find it humourous, Wayfare and her mom are sitting there busting a gut at the wording choice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to have a date finally set. I would have preferred a Thursday, since I want to go away the weekend after and I know I&#8217;m not getting any sleep the night before. At least it&#8217;s in the morning so I can conceivably take a nap before hitting the road. The upside is that the extra day gives me more time to <del datetime=\"2006-04-07T15:09:27+00:00\">procrastinate on<\/del> polish my public lecture!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally have an exam date set. May 5th it is! The email was pretty funny: Because [Examiner #3] was not available to participate as an examiner on Potato&#8217;s defense on Friday, May 5th, I contacted [New Examiner #3] yesterday to see if he was available to replace [Examiner #3]. He contacted me a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}