I barely worked on my masters thesis last year and so lost all opportunities to get may Economics masters on Insper (ex-IBMEC São Paulo). However, today I sign up to the program again and got around 2 years to do it. It is time enough for a PhD thesis but I intend start a new thesis (the old one is a dead end) and defend it beginning 2011.
My plan is write something about yield curve building (something I do for some years) and propose a test to compare different methods.