Congradulations, Z

I made Z this kinda jank cake to celebrate his officially going from Z to Dr. Z.

It took him a long time, and it was very hard going - not that any doctoral dissertation is ever easy, but Z has struggled with some pretty bad mental and physical health issues these past couple of years. At one point, he couldn't type for more than an hour or two a day. I spent a lot of this spring and summer helping him be able to get it done, and to be honest, it was hard on my own mental health at some points.

But he did finish it. And the committee liked it. And he eventually got through the revisions process after a few times back and forth (I took some breaks from writing Battleship fic to help with that as well, because there is little hell like Formatting in Microsoft Word hell and they wanted the citations in an idiosyncratic format). There's just the piece of paper left, and that'll probably show up in three months after we've entirely forgotten about it.

I'm very proud of him ♥