updates

My advisor and I had "the talk" and, after talking with another committee member as well, we have a window for my public defense lecture, sometime during the 1st week in August! I am excited, and am pulling for something like the 8th, since it will accomplish 3 things

a)give me a tiny bit of extra time (like 3 days) to finish writing
b)give the committee a little longer than 2 weeks to read the thing
c)like half of my friends will be out of town on the 1st, but will be back by the 8th, so it would make the audience full of support

The only downside would be that it would leave me only 1 week to do the revisions, but I don't foresee too many revisions (I know, famous last words) since most of the stuff will be either published or submitted for publication by the time they see the first dissertation draft.

Now I just have to remember to keep breathing.