What a day…

Flame On!Great day today. For one simple reason: After a huge amount of work I’m through with version 1 of my Ph.D. thesis. I just finished writing the last bit of real content this afternoon while listening to Jon Schaffer‘s incredible “High Water Mark” from Iced Earth’s “Glorious Burden”. Great album, powerful track and it just fit the moment.

To understand the significance you have to understand the context: I started my first attempt at a Ph.D. thesis in 2000 – and shortly afterwards abandoned it because we founded QuinScape and that was just a lot more interesting. In 2004 I met my current professor and we agreed on me becoming an external Ph.D. student (because during my daytime I’m working as one of three CEO’s of QuinScape). In 2006 I changed the topic of my Ph.D. thesis completely because the old topic no longer had any connection to my day work which made it impossible to progress. And now… finally… all chapters are in place… all content has been put down. I “only” need to read through it once more to correct my writing, add a decent index and glossary and fix some of the literature references. That should be done in about four to six weeks, then there’ll by my marriage (did I mention that? No, I don’t think so yet πŸ˜‰ ), then our honeymoon and then… roleplaying games… ADOM… JADE and whatever else catches my interest. Somewhere in September or October I hopefully will be able to defend my thesis and at some point afterwards I hopefully will be Dr. Biskup. Hopefully… knock on wood and keep your fingers crossed!

2 Responses to “What a day…”

  1. Botched  on June 28th, 2009

    Congratulations on finishing the thesis.
    Congratulations on getting married.

    Good luck with everything.

  2. Raijin87  on October 22nd, 2009

    Hope you will finish Jade πŸ™‚
    im so looking forward 2 it πŸ™‚