adventures in thesis writing

you know you've been staring at the same literature for faaaar too long when you start having breakup conversations with the journal articles: "you're lovely, really, you are, but i just don't think it's going to work out right now. i'm looking for a binary logit model and, well, you're a poisson distribution. i'm sorry."

please note that i have never broken up with an actual human being. but i have now broken the hearts of at least three econometrics articles. i am a bad, bad girl.