World's longest Master's thesis complete at last!

No, not the longest in number of pages, longest in terms of completion time! For any of you out there contemplating a Master's degree in your near future, my helpful advice would be to avoid doing any of the following until your degree is completed:

• Working 40-50 hours a week
• Getting married
• Moving to another hemisphere
• Having a baby
• Learning another language

These seemed to delay the process ever so slightly.... Anyway, after [cough] seven [cough] years, it is finally over. Free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last.