The email I had been expecting came yesterday morning. I would like to have said it was good news, but I can’t. Then again it wasn’t the bad news I had feared: my thesis had not passed, but it hadn’t failed. The examiners had sent it back to me for a few corrections – I have a few quotes to tidy up, a few things to clarify, but that’s all. True I have work to do, but overall it was pretty positive. I can’t decide whether to feel positive or negative about it, but most of all I just want to get it done.