Louise's thoughts

Printing

While my dissertation is printing I got to do weird things I haven't done for a while: Clearing my office desk (most of the papers I just stuck in to a giant folder named 'thesis related') and surfing the internet (wow, there are things happening in the world besides context-aware computing and design guidelines). I have this weird sense that this is a big moment and then not. Fact is that making 11 copies (I have to hand in 7, then one for me, one for my Dad, one for my relatives in California, one for my friend and ups, one for my co-advisor, sorry Paul...) takes looooong time on a copier when you have 160 pages. And because I only have one copy card, I have to wait until it is all printed to make the 8 or so color copies that I think would give it a nice touch. So all this 'wow, this is it' is just plain hard work. And then I have to admit that there is nothing glamorous about spending a Sunday night alone at the university only being interrupted by a security guy who wanted to make sure that someone had not left the copier upstairs (the one on my floor is not working...) copying 11 copies of 160 pages by accident. I reassured him that I wouldn't leave without turning off the lights.