Status Updates From The Dark Between the Trees

I do not wish to be judgy, but I do not think the author entirely understands the PhD process. Unless my experience was very different to everyone else's, there's a bit of a gap between submitting and defending - you know, while your examiners read the 100,000 words they're going to be examining you on...

Alice is an incredibly irritating character.

Nothing remotely unsettling or scary this far...