OP, if possible, maybe purchase a vehicle with more modern safety features like frontal radar and pre-collision breaking/crash avoidance. Also, defensive driving course are good for ya and sometimes your insurance will reduce your premium if they hear that you have taken one of these courses.

Unless you have a strong familial history of colon cancer, it's rare for someone so young to get colon cancer.

Candidacy.

And I totally feel you, for the first 4 years of my thesis I had issues with worrying about others thoughts of me until an upper year student heard me talk and said to me "what makes you convinced they are spending time thinking about that aspect about you, rather than something else."

I would be willing to bet that if the professors thought anything, it was for a fleeting moment. They are in your field because they love the topic, and they are professors because they love to teach, and they are YOUR committee specifically because they like you and want to watch you grow and see who you will become. I doubt any of them are passing negative judgment about you, and if they are, they will give you constructive feedback because they want to help you and watch you grow and thrive!

Edit1: I forgot to mention, WAY TO GO ACHIEVING CANDIDACY! This is an accomplishment that only a small percentage of the world attempt and achieve. You are well on your way to adding to humanities knowledge!

40 mins???!!! Mine lasted at least 2 hrs, I'm surprised yours was expected to be so short. Anywho, 2x the time doesn't seem significant to me given that the expectation was that it be so short. Also, those are soft limits, usually put in place by the program to give some guidance, as long as your committee stayed engaged and didn't complain, then they were onboard with it continuing at the pace it was, but next time I would recommend not altering your state of mind with medications/substances, the risk is too great.