Posting hiatus ended

The last week has been consumed by my dissertation for my master's degree and the wind-down that follows it.  In the lead-up to hand-in I slept about 11 hours in nearly 72 hours, my brain racing with thought, swimming with ideas.  I had taken my supervisor's advice to have a break just to appraoch the review with a fresh outlook.  She recommended two weeks; I did two days but it was enough for the midn to dissipate the intellectual pandemonium.  I hadn't actually finished the dissertation when I came back to it but I had burst the 14,000 word limit and had a formidable bibliography of over 100 sources.
Thus it was about finishing it off in conjunction with my reviweing of it.  You can never review enough.  Even three hours before deadline, I was still appending material (to the introductuion no less) and hence editing other bits out.  I then submitted in online - one of the requirements - first so it wouldn't become a dangerous afterthought.  My search for a suitable folder in Medway was unncessary because the cheapest and classiest way to present the hard copies was thermal binding on campus.  And then the release of the hard-copy hand-in.
I am reasonably happy with what I presented.  There are tweaks here and there that I could have done and it certainly won't get an official publishing in an academic journal (as dissertations graded 80% and above get this kind of consideration), yet there is not too much more I could have done with the time left available to me.  Juggling looking after a baby, a full-time job and church administration business takes a real toll on the hours of the day when one isn't sleeping (or at least trying to sleep, when the mind isn't doing fireworks).  In the grading system used, with a bracket of 10%, the grade alights on either 2, 5 or 8.  If I get a 72%, distinction is mine, if I end up on 68%, while creditable, willl mean my overall course will be rated 69.4% and the university only rounds it up to a distinction is it is 69.5%.
That was Friday, 2pm, with 90 minutes to spare.  Thereafter, I felt the tiredness that had been postponed, as had happened with other essays that had cut it fine.  Wired for so long, the immediate finishing of such a long task brings with it a surge of sleepiness.  I kept going relatively well but had afternoon siestas on Saturday and Sunday., as I took advantage of having to do exactly nothing.