"If you're waiting for the big finale, I'm sorry this is all I do."

I passed my thesis defense! Woohoo!!! Huge sigh of relief. Now I actually believe I will graduate with my master's. What a long, stressful, exhausting road. Many sleepless nights, hours in the lab, and hours upon hours of writing. I'm not done with the writing yet, but I will be.

For now I'm crashing. I don't care to think about anything. I thought it was just going to be for 2 days and then I'd be back to work, not so. I find I'm so tired that I can't do anything more than lay on the sofa and watch tv shows. Getting up, and having thought provoking conversations exhausts me. I think my brain and my body are all in, and need this serious downtime. Clearly I'm drained.

On that note, I have recently gotten obsessed with "24".  All through the process of preparing for my defense I would try and remind myself that no matter how bad my defense went, it couldn't be as bad as Jack Bauer's day.  I have made it through the first season, and am now 1/4th the way through the second season. And I still have 5 seasons to go after that before I even get to the new season which is airing now.

I must say, I admire Jack's daughter, Kim. For as many times as she has gotten kidnapped so far she has a head on her shoulders. Always thinking of ways to escape that aren't entirely stupid. Most of these shows I always get irritated at the women who get kidnapped, because when they try to escape they don't do it right, they don't think it out. Kim thinks it out. She's her father's daughter. She takes responsibility for her actions and tries to fix whatever mess she gets herself into, and doesn't whine and complain. I realize this is a fiction story, but I'm just glad they don't portray her as stupid. However, there is one thing that bugged me in the first season. She frequently used a payphone, but I'm never quit sure where she got the money for it. She didn't have a purse, and she was on the run, so that just confuses me.

I started reading "Divergent" two weeks ago and had to put it down for times sake because of my defense. I guess I'll pick that up again soon and finish it off. Training to be in Dauntless.... well that's just another impossible task. Which reminds me, I think I'm going to make a shirt like I've seen on Pinterest.... "Train like you've been picked for the Hunger Games" that should be a huge motivation.

Anyways that enough thinking for now, back to vegging.