A viva party
Oct. 21st, 2012 09:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisA colleague of mine defended her PhD dissertation on Friday, about dysentery in Sweden. I hadn't intended to go to the viva party, but since one of our PhD-students couldn't coem due to illness and I surprisingly felt well enough to go to a party I ended up going anyway. This is what I wore.
Note the scruffy shoes, which are one of three pair shoes that I can wear now due to my arthritis flare. At our faculty the dress code isn't very strict for viva parties, which is good; I wouldn't have gotten away with a cotton dress and scruffy shoes at the faculty of medicine for example.
It wasa nice party. I danced some, drank a couple of beers and talked to both old friends and some of our really nice new PhD students. And I sensibly went home at half past eleven.
Note the scruffy shoes, which are one of three pair shoes that I can wear now due to my arthritis flare. At our faculty the dress code isn't very strict for viva parties, which is good; I wouldn't have gotten away with a cotton dress and scruffy shoes at the faculty of medicine for example.
It wasa nice party. I danced some, drank a couple of beers and talked to both old friends and some of our really nice new PhD students. And I sensibly went home at half past eleven.
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Date: 2012-10-21 10:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-21 07:15 pm (UTC)As for dysentery in Sweden I have to admit that since I find the whole concept of "bare-bottomed armies" to be both hilarious and horrifying I would probably find that an interesting read.
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Date: 2012-10-22 06:38 am (UTC)But apart from the summary it's only in Swedish.
/Eva