Ready for yet another dissertation/PhD program bookend? The other day I received my Certificate of Registration from the U.S. Copyright Office for my dissertation. I had forgotten that when I filed the thing I paid an extra fee to have the grad school office file my copyright claim. Well, now I am official with title 17, United States Code and am forever on record. Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights, was good enough to sign my form, attesting to my dissertation's greatness--er, I mean registration of authorship and year of creation.
So, thank you, Ms. Peters. You made my day! (The rest of you: Do not make fun of the joy that this small token brought me. One must get one's warm fuzzies wherever one can.)