Proposal Defense, Done.

2011 has been a busy year!!  I taught two sections of ITIS 2300 in the Spring but somehow managed to successfully defend my dissertation proposal on Cinco de Mayo.  Now, I am officially ABD! This, of course, is surreal to me given that I just chose my dissertation topic (after switching departments and an unsuccessful and unhappy attempt at Geoviz research) less than a year ago.  Anyway, the day after my proposal defense, I flew to Vancouver to attend the pre-conference workshop on Networked Privacy at CHI 2011.  The summer class I am teaching started the following Monday, and two days later I flew to Philadelphia to attend the CTS 2011 Doctoral Colloquium.  So, this week, I have just been trying to catch my breath.  Oh yeah, and teach 5 days a week and schedule interviews for my research. This is going to be a fun summer!