The thesis text has been printed, bound and seven copies have been delivered to the proper authorities. My personal copy is sitting next to me here and just looking at it feels awesome. It's an actual object. It's big too.

Printing turned out to be far more complicated and stressful than expected, solely because of the way the department's printer room is run. Let's just say that incompetence and penny pinching are a bad combination and leave it at that.