elanya

Best of luck to you, although I don't think you're going to need it. I've said it before, but it bears saying again. You're incredibly intelligent and knowledgeable. You're eloquent and level-headed, and, unless you've been lying to us all and hiding Regency romance novels between the covers of your academic reading, you've been preparing for a long time.

Also, a) Donny is not a hard-ass although I'm sure he would like to be seen as such and b) seriously, people who, IMHO, are dumb as a box of rocks have passed their prelims. You're going to blow them out of the water.

But if it makes you feel better, I'll ask Athena and Hermes to be looking out for you.