3 Down, 1 To Go

I have completed the first drafts of Chapters 1-3 and submitted them to my mentor for review. So far only minor corrections. She says I write beautifully, thank goodness... Now, I have one last chapter, Chapter 4: Discussion. I should feel like this:

But instead, I still feel like this:

Okay, maybe I'm over-exaggerating a bit. As my thesis is coming to a close, and the light at the end of the tunnel is now visible, I reflect on the last month or so of writing. There were definitely times at the start of this process that I felt like that picture above. But I think my timely progress has quelled those fears, and so, that initial panic has at least passed. Now, there are still times that I feel like this:Or even this: 

But mostly it's just this, a looming pest that's constantly at the back of my mind, constantly stalking me, and now I'm at the point that I just want it to leave me alone!:So I nicely ask myself (or maybe it's more of a reverberating question, asked over and over, obsessively in my mind - you never can tell): Well, then.... it would appear there is a fine line between sanity and insanity at this point, so I should probably stare at this advice-carrying signage for a few hours before getting back to it, 

all the whilst knowing that all of my never-ending hard work will NOT inevitably lead to this sort of situation at my defense: 

On a side note: I thought the spiral picture was cool! It reminds me of DNA!

Side note 2: Why did I just spend so much time working on this when I could have been halfway done with my future directions by now?

Side note 3: Matt is driving into ABQ to see me today and will be here until Wednesday!! I can't wait to see him!!

Side note 4: I think the explanation for my above question posed in side note 2 lies mostly in the anticipation for the arrival of a certain someone listed in side note 3.

Side note 5: I am in a very strange mood today and should probably stop. Now.