Aaaaahhhhh

Last week I ended a stressful few weeks and successfully defended my dissertation proposal, Computational Aspects of Approval Voting and Declared-Strategy Voting, which is a relief.  Now I've sold my doctoral committee on the value of my work and all I have to do is the work I proposed.  I took a few days to relax, but now it feels so good to concentrate on getting new research results again!  The future is now much less uncertain and I feel reenergized.

Plus Aggie basketball is in the Sweet 16 and Aggie baseball is off to a great start, having just beaten perennial power Rice in 11 innings.  Even Wash. U. basketball got to the Division III Final Four.  It's an exciting time.