He's not fat-- he's my thesis!

Okay, the giddy Oh-My-God-I-Totally-Wrote-A-Thesis-(But-Okay-I'm-Not-Saying-It's-Good) stage is setting in. I just sat in my desk chair and laughed for about 5 minutes, because I just performed my first whole-thesis word count.


Me: Hey fool, guess how many words my thesis is!

Other [pause... head-tilt-back... muttering]: thousand is ... pages...

M: [rocking back and forth like a traumatized monkey]...

O: Eighteen thousand three hundred sixty nine (18369)!

M: No! But hey, awesome guess. My thesis is twenty six thousand two hundred sixty five (26265) words!

O: Wow!

M: I know!

O: ... And that was a good guess!