Meetings of Two Sorts

Today was my first official thesis committee meeting, during which I presented my research project, gave some preliminary results, and let my committee members question me about various aspects of the study design.  Events like that can go either positively or painfully, but I have some good profs and I got supportive feedback and helpful comments, I felt like I handled the interrogation portion well (it was conducted fairly) and was really pleased with how the meeting went overall.

And tomorrow I have a meeting of a different kind: Match!  Going up for my monthly weekend visit to see The Boy, can't wait. We're celebrating my birthday as well, and this time around I will actually loosen up and allow it to be special (see last post for background).  Except he pretty much spoils me to the max all the time, not sure if he can possibly ramp it up in honor of birthday, but will be fun to watch him try. ;p

Long drive to get to him, though, 12 hours on the road, and I have some sleep debt built up, so this post shall be brief.  I wish I'd taken better care of myself leading up to this trip, because I feel like crap and am a bit worried that I won't be as much fun as I'd like this weekend.  I handled the last trip really well, though (although I was also doing better ed-wise leading up to that visit than I am now), and hopefully this one will go smoothly also, as far as dealing with being out of routine and such.