And just a shade under a decade too, alright...
Well, it's hard to believe the day has finally come, but as of Friday your's truly is a PhD.
Of course, even after attaining such heights I still have to do things like leave work to get sick toddlers from daycare (which is why I'm home blogging in the middle of the day), but at least I'm doing it with a terminal degree.
I'll let you all know when the dissertation will be headed to your local bookstore (that is, if you happen to have a local bookstore that specializes in academic theology), and/or, when it is turned into a made for TV movie.
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Hooray!
can i edit the tv movie?
Dude,
Your book will so be on the shelves here. NO DOUBT. I mean there is a Christian TV network station (STATION) down the street. I am willing to bet that your biggest sales will be from the AL crowd. I'm not sure that the theology down here is academic per se, but it's rampant!!
CONGRATULATIONS! You must be so relieved.
mo let's make it into a documentary. we'll need to "go back to the beginning".
it can start with josh learning about the selflessness of others, when on a dartmouth camping trip, having sprained his ankle, his fellow hikers took all the weight from his bags with nary a complaint.
we can also touch on how josh learned about looking beyond appearances, when lincoln scared off our female camper by announcing, "looks like it's all men here, boys."
Can we call it "Never Say Ankle: The Joshua Papsdorf Story"?
Please please make the documentary a cartoon!!!
With a singing number and talking animals!
Wow, a lot of really great suggestions there. I meant that there would be a movie based on my dissertation, but come to think of it, my life story would be pretty inspiring.
Kind of like Chariots of Fire but with less running and more Latin reading and typing.
well it could be based on your dissertation, but any good documentary has got to take into account the author's life, don't you think?
by the way, i certainly hope you managed to work some TPB references into your work somewhere.
J et al,
Funny you should mention that. I was thinking that if the Josh movie were an animation, in an ironic twist the "marrrrage" minister from TPB should do the voice over for Josh. That works on so many levels.
There is, in fact, a TPB reference in my dissertation. I compare Satan's attack on mankind to Count Rugen's scarring of the young Inigo. Just as Inigo goes on to defeat Rugen, so, in Ambrosiaster's thought, mankind ultimately defeats Satan by finding salvation.
I'm going to try to get it published starting this summer and the reference is definitely staying in.
Josh, you make us all proud.
I'm sorry I'm so late and this is buried in the 18th comment--congratulations!! We are thrilled for you, and Lincoln applauds the TPB reference!
Thank you all for your kind words, but I must give some of the credit to Dan Mazzucco. He was, in many ways, my inspiration, especially as the man who first inserted a Princess Bride reference into a thesis.
I think my own contribution is significant in that my reference to TPB actually makes sense in the dissertation.
In the immortal words of one Mrs. Fasani...
"So what will you do with a Philosophy [Religion] degree?!"
BTW - Congratulations! That, uh, (huh-huh).. That, like, rocks dude...
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