Pushing a rock

So a looooooooooong time ago, when the show America's Funniest Home Videos first began, my family was a huge fan. We would watch all the time after dinner, or even during dinner. At this point in my life, we had a yellow Labrador named Jesse. Sweet and energetic dog, and a little OCD. She loved to get ahold of the old peanut butter buckets (we bought the huge industrial bucket from Sam's back then) and run with it in her mouth around the back yard. The funny thing was, she would hold it in such a way that it was covering her eyes...so she was literally running blind. But she didn't care. She was just happy to have her bucket.
Ok,back to AFHV. I remember specifically a video that came on one night. It was a lab who had found a rock in the back yard. Bigger than your average rock...about grapefruit size. It had a flat bottom, so the dog would start pushing it around the back yard with his nose. He went in circles all around the back yard pushing this rock with his nose. It was pretty funny. Bob Saget narrated the video and said something like about how dogs are easily entertained, and then as if he was the dogs thoughts, he said "pushing a rock, pushing a rock, pushing a rock, turn it around, turn it around, pushing a rock, pushing a rock, pushing a rock, turn it around." Of course Bob Saget imitating a dogs thoughts made the video even twice as funny. and, it was even more funny to our family because of how it was so similar to how Jesse acted with the peanut butter bucket. I remember my Dad sitting at the dinner table laughing so hard that his laugh became silent. Ya know....those laughs that are so deep down inside you just feel it, but it becomes inaudible.

So why and I telling you the rock story? Well folks, not to harp on the same issue, but I've been pushing a rock since January. Except my rock has become bigger and more heavy with time. I feel like this week, though, I will be turning that rock around for the last time. Yep...I am this close ------------- to being done. "Done" is such a wonderful word. And I promise, as soon as I am done, I will write about more interesting things on our blog then just my thesis. I had originally had a goal of turning it in yesterday, but due to some setbacks ( and my professor being in Mexico for a week) that has been pushed back to next Monday. So...t minus 7 days and counting. Until then, I'll just be pushing a rock.