rationale

Update as of 3pm: I have received my final approval from C. Lane. It was terrible that his was the one I had to wait the longest for. But it finally came!

I just sent off the final draft of my rationale to my advisors. I finally had to just hold my breath and punch send. Then I did something that I always think will prove to be more gratifying than it is. I added up the "editing time" recorded by Word for each of my drafts. The total, once divided by 60, was 13 hours. Like I said, I always expect that the resulting number will actually be able to quantify what feels like an enormous amount of time and energy put into this document. But 13 hours? That just doesn't seem that impressive does it? Well, maybe Word is lying to me.