So between the fire drill and the deletion of my working directory... I managed to spend 16 hours yesterday sitting behind this computer. I got to work at 8:00am and left at 1:30am. I took a bit of time off to make dinner, but that's about it. I think that's a new record for my LANL career. Certainly for a Sunday. Definitely for a holiday.

The end is in sight, though. Initial conference call pseudo-defense is Thursday afternoon. Then it is less than one month before I have to have the finised, defended, and accepted document submited to MIT.

I'm starting to feel excited about the prospects of actually being done, after seven long years. Everything depends on what the committee says in regards to my Thursday presentation. Wish me luck!