seeing the end!!!

i had a great meeting with my advisor today, but it was not great due to anything that he said to me. it was great because the dissertation outline that we have been using as meeting material for about a month and a half now is nearly complete!!! the last chapter in the outline is more of a broad, high-level look at things, and should require minimal work in terms of experiments. it should be completed through thought experiments and basic number crunching. needless to say, i can see the end. so much so that we even set a date for me to submit my dissertation: November 6, 2009!!! if that's not exciting then I don't know what is.

the only thing between me and this deadline is the work to be done!!!