dj whitebread
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Process
I gave a defense presentation to my external committee member over the phone on Tuesday. It went well. I mean, obviously, it could have been much better. Considering I had just finished the slides at 2 AM the night before, there really hadn't been much practice. However, it ended up being more of just a guided conversation, anyway. My committee member had lots of good questions, comments, and suggestions on both the dissertation document and the defense presentation. So good experience all around.
Last night we helped Harry and Meg pack up their truck as they headed out this morning to start the long drive to California. I wish them luck, as the desert in the summer is not high on my lists of places to visit. ;) More so, we'll miss them here in Austin!
More work to do, more work to do. The end is getting strangely close. It doesn't feel real. When you've been working on one thing for seven years (and stating it as your goal for seventeen) it is hard to imagine the day will actually come. I swear I look at the checklist daily of forms that need to be turned in. My nightmare is that I don't graduate because some form is missing or I zigged when I should have zagged.
I am cooking some curried okra tonight. Should be interesting. Tonight I plan on writing. However, I am going to try and do it some place other than school to mix things up and to try and get my creative juices a flowin'.
Labels: dissertation, work, writing
4:39 PM |
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Crunch Time
Harrick and I had a good meeting this morning. As we joked while we were on the phone, we are making good progress with the work, it is a shame we are making said progress the day before the deadline. ;)
Anyway, we have a plan to get the paper into decent shape by tomorrow evening. Part of this plan revolves around me tightening up two of the sections a lot. The problem is that it becomes pretty evident that we haven't built the system. Not that we're trying to hide it, it's just building it makes a lot of things very concrete. The good news is that if the paper gets in we'll have a little more time before the camera ready is due, and I intend to start having the system built by then.
2:32 PM |
