I passed my qualifying exam which feels peachy. I can now focus principally on the chief manuscript for the PhD, the improvisation story complete with revenge and epiphany. Realized this morning I missed a perfect opportunity to make distasteful academic jokes during the exam. Something I would enjoy if I had been sharper. Someone complimented my writing and I replied my skills were attributable to the rousing support/ coaching of committee members Elaine and Daniel. They speak academic like frogs ribbit. Later when my writing was acknowledged a second time I should have said don’t thank me, thank Chat GPT. Maybe they wouldn’t have known what to do with that joke but alone in my world, I’m hilarious.