Eating an elephant

Writing a dissertation is like eating an elephant: you just have to take it one bite at a time.

Except that, after a few years of eating nothing but elephant, you get a bit tired of elephant. And you really want to have some pizza, but you know that you have all this elephant to finish. So you try really hard to stick to the elephant, and feel guilty when you succumb and eat a pizza here and there, just to get the taste of elephant out of your mouth. Except for birthdays and anniversaries and holidays, where you justify not eating any elephant that day because, hey! it’s my birthday/anniversary/a holiday!

And by now, the elephant’s been lying around for several months, so it’s a lot less appetizing than when you started...


--GG