Dissertation, will you marry me? (proposal)

Yesterday (5-10-2012) I successfully defended my dissertation proposal. That leaves just one more step before graduation: dissertation defense. Well, data analysis, write-up of results and discussion and then defense. The proposal went very well and my committee was very supportive. I have set a tentative defense date of July 6th which is cutting it quite close for all of the things I have to do between now and then. The rest of my day was fantastic (birthday celebration) but that will deserve its own post.

I thought I'd throw in these pictures just for fun. The first is how I feel when I first sit down to work on something (like my dissertation). The second is how I usually end.