I am not reprinting 1056 pages

Well, I'm printing out my dissertation document (times 6). I guess that means I can't work on it anymore.

I was feeling pretty good about it earlier in the week. Like I told a reasonable story and added something to the literature and had created a huge document that read fairly well.

Then my advisor finally gave me comments. After months of not giving me comments. It had gotten to the point where I had presumed he was actively not giving me comments because it was my project and he was staying out of the way.

Apparently not.

I was seriously angry about it. These weren't just grammarical comments, these were big theoretical focus comments. These were the sorts of things that would require serious work, not just to address at the point where he raised them, but to integrate them into the flow of the entire document. He gave me 60 pages of such comments 3 days before I was planning on being done.

If I wasn't angry enough about that, I was then irritated at his other comments where he claimed to not understand descriptions that my other readers had thought was perfectly clear. And when certain descriptions showed up multiple times in the document (it is written as 3 papers), he had totally different comments each time.

I did as much as I could with all that. The document may be stronger, but it certainly feels weaker since I haven't had time to reread the entire thing to make sure my language and story are consistent.

But, now, I can't change anything else. It is printing. It has that most glorious attribute for a dissertation document: done.