Am seriously freaking out about the committee meeting next week and the idea of finishing before the end of the year. I have a reasonably good feeling about setting at date for the defense at my meeting, but am really worried about whether I will be able to get all the massive amounts of writing that I will need to get done before then. I haven't even started on the intro and the second paper yet. Yikes! I'm just hoping that EHD is going to be on my side come next week...

Arian approached me about a paid gig at his church. All bets are off till my committee meeting. He also told me that Don will be back at UCLA next week. Pretty good considering he had a quadruple bypass surgery 8 weeks ago!