Signs My Thesis Has Taken Too Long #29,585,494

I like to study in a little outdoor area on the side of my house. I'm there so often that birds and small woodland creatures (i.e., neighbors' cats) are no longer afraid of me. In fact I can't get them to go away. I'm like the graduate student version of St. Francis of Assisi, except that I offer no message of hope.

Thesis Progress: Working on the corrections I do have; hope to pull a miracle (since I'm apparently a saint) and finish them all by tonight. But it's doubtful, and my procrastination isn't helping.

Signs My Thesis Has Taken Too Long #2

The freshman I taught when I started my thesis are now old enough to drink ... and sometimes they chase me down in local bars and say, "I'd never thought you'd still be here."

Thesis Progress: Page count has not changed; I'm actually doing a lot of "pre-writing."

Incognito Part II

I’m no longer anonymous at the local Starbucks. Nobody likes the weird guy who spends hours at “his” table, and if I keep a regular schedule, I risk "blowing my cover" as the top-secret writer of this blog. So today I embarked upon a journey to one of the seven other Starbucks that are in a 5-mile radius of my house.

**Update on the adventure of an exotic, new Starbucks coming soon.**

THESIS PROGRESS: 17.5 of 40 pages written*
*That's only for chapter 3, the full thesis is much longer.

Signs My Thesis Has Taken Too Long #1

A building on campus burns down, is closed for a semester ... and gets rebuilt.

THESIS PROGRESS: 16 of 40 pages written*
*That's only for chapter 3, the full thesis is much longer.