Coming out of my honors thesis defense this afternoon felt like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar after his duel with Bruce Lee – like mud. What I thought was going to be a pleasant half-hour Q&A session turned out to be a full-on 2-hour grilling session, as I tried to deflect questions even tougher than those from my PhD defense two years ago. At least now that the battle is over, I’ll get to enjoy true senioritis until internship year (a.k.a. “the storm”) hits in June. Besides running a few errands and getting some freelance work done, I’ll also continue embarking on Captain Picard’s Season 1 adventures and resume my movie list, including Bruce Lee’s Game of Death, which despite the lookalikes and cardboard cut-outs to make up for the star’s untimely death, still retains its moments of guts and glory. Hiiiiyah!