Dissertation update

I've updated the dissertation-o-meter at right to reflect the fact that I have submitted a draft of the first two chapters to my adviser and am now awaiting her comments. I think I successfully made the connection that I was trying to make, but I can only wait to see it from her perspective. Having immersed myself in the project in order to meet my self-imposed deadline, I got the neurons firing. Now I just have to keep them going so that I won't have as much start-up time for the next go 'round.