So what?

I finished my dissertation proposal! Yowza! I ran around town last night trying to find a copy place that was a) open and b) had an operable comb binding machine. I had to opt for the icky tape binding but it's better than a binder clip or a huge staple. This morning I distributed it to my five committee members, who (whom?) I am sure will read it the night before the defense. You'd like to think that after all that work people would give it the proper time it is due, but that is one of the many myths of graduate school. So now I wait until the 29th, at 9am, at which time I go before the tribunal, otherwise known as the proposal defense. In the meantime I will be preparing stock answers to such universal questions as "why are you doing this?" and "so what?"