I successfully defended my dissertation on June 5th, 1997, so now I have a PhD! The title of my dissertation is Selected Topics in Fractional Graph Theory, and you can download the whole thing here. I moved back to L.A. that summer, and spent a year doing computer programming for Compulink. But at the moment, I have that academic job I was looking for... I'm teaching mathematics at Harvey Mudd College!
The contents of my dissertation are also appearing (hopefully) as three journal papers...