Sign that Writing a Dissertation is Stressful #42: You relax by reading a book about a series of grisly unsolved murders in the 1930s.

I’ve given up trying to write my dissertation. Now I’m just typing it.

Yesssss! I finally defended my dissertation proposal. I’m all done with classes, too!

Now, I just need to study for comps, take comps, do field work, conduct experiments, run statistics, write up results, write dissertation, and defend dissertation. Uggghhh! It never ends. It’s a sickness.