Thesis update

You shouldn't care, but just in case: I estimate I am this close to done:

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Earlier, I said I was posting here as a way to divert the dross from entering my refined thesis prose. Said dross is now being shoveled directly into the thesis. I've really had it up to here with dyadic Green's functions, tip-particle plasmon resonances, intraband metal photoluminescence, ultrafast nonlinear optics, and single molecule and quantum dot fluorescence and absorption imaging of either the far field or near-field variety. Mothers, don't let your kids grow up to be grad students. Seriously, it's totally not worth it.