> My wife is finishing up her PhD in American History and I can tell she's getting bored [PhD candidate] is finishing up [gender pronoun] PhD in [field] and I

> My wife is finishing up her PhD in American History and I can tell she's getting bored [PhD candidate] is finishing up [gender pronoun] PhD in [field] and I can tell [gender pronoun]'s getting bored. I just turned your statement into a template that works for every PhD candidate of the last 100 years.