FANTASTIC NEWS!

The Great BZWZ now has a new name: Doctoral Candidate Great BZWZ. DCBZWZ? On Friday afternoon she took her oral exams (also known as 'the firing squad') at Brown and passed with flying colors. (Actually, we neither know, nor care, about the 'flying colors,' but we would be surprised at any other result.)

So now she is officially on the team, after two and a half years of preparation. "Now I can just be a scientist," she says, which is hard enough but probably less worrisome. Normally she would expect her continuing research to take around the same amount of time from here, but you never know.

In the meantime, she has expressed a desire for "drinks with little pink umbrellas" and lots of time to lie face down in the sand. Puerto Rico is coming up in a few weeks and we'll attempt to give the lady what she wants.

All the ladies -- 5H, BB and TGD will be there too. And The Great PD. And even Plottie.

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By the way, Cousin Seattle, Miss Earthquake Tectonics -- you must be REALLY busy these days...