The AD (After the Deadline) period has began!

At about 9 a.m. I crawled into bed. The excitement of ending my own hell and the smile that was framing my face did not let me fall asleep for some time.

At 12 I was already up, checking my messages for news from Sylvie. I found this picture:

.. and a few words telling me: "CONGRATULATIONS, Katya! You have successfully handed in your Master's thesis!"

From that moment on, the day was filled with lots of sun, the wide smile that I got before going to bed, and some kind of misty memory-less evening baggage packing.

Three more hours of fast sleep later, at 4a.m. I was on my way to a vacation in Greece and some

Yes, yes, good days are coming!
:)

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* Sylvie, once again, thanks plenty for the help! :)

Depiction

Here are some of the pictures that I saw and felt related to while working on the thesis:

The BC (Before Completion) period is over!

I am officially done with working on my thesis.

Yay!

As somebody (and by "somebody" I mean every single person who knows me) may have expected, I finished it at the last possible moment of the last possible attempt for submitting.

The last day of April was fading into a night and I was still writing. Things did not look good, I must admit.

I did not believe in myself, though others did... Luckily, I knew I had the support of my family, my friends and my boyfriend (who fell asleep on the couch, next to me, only after reading the analysis part of my paper and giving me his feedback) and this loaded me with energy to keep going.

Finally, after greeting the sun that gave me its yellow-purple-red-colored rays on the first day of May, I decided I was done editing. I sent the file to my friend Sylvie who was going to submit the paper copies for me (since I am not in Denmark) and tried to process the thought that I had just finished.

Then, with the morning sun coming in through the bathroom window, I took the happiest shower of my life while singing one happy song after another.. Aaahh, better days are coming!

Evening thesis maxims: 3

People say the happiest day of their lives was their wedding or child’s birth. Apparently they didn’t have to submit a thesis.

Evening thesis maxims: 2

I am not an alcoholic, I am just working on my thesis. Alcoholics meet people.

Evening thesis maxims: 1

Some things just look better in people's imagination... like lesbians, or housemaids, or the chances to finish a master's thesis on time...

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* No offense intended! Seriously! :)

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I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

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* I.V., thanks for sharing! :)

In a hurry for a deadline

I am recently having plenty of deadlines to meet. And somehow, the last few days of every single period, I feel like I have to be that fast when completing my tasks:

Things I have to do

Sometimes there's just not enough time for everything in a day..

... and there are these days when you feel like it's been this way forever..

* the second picture I found here

Economics - a better choice than Medicine!

I was just in a(nother) race against time to submit my homework in Danish before the deadline. I won. But this got me thinking.. It is really good that people's lives don't depend on me.. With my time management skills they would be all dead...

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