Phd silence is not the same as inactivity.
The problem has been that the examination board were not available on the 15 September. Apparently they seem to have better things to do! Anyway there are some new suggested dates on the table: 25, 26 or 27 September.
The next deadline is involves handing in the penultimate version of my thesis to my supervisor on the 5 June. Penultimate means, in this case, that it should be finished but there are a few typos.
If you do not read phdcomics then its time you began…