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It's time for a change!
The countdown has begun. For a variety of reasons it's time to wrap up 30 years of schooling with a doctorate in April...Monday April 14th to be exact. That's the day I will be defending my Ph.D. thesis. My talk, which will be open to the public, will be 9-10am and then there will be the closed "exam" from 10am-Noon. Afterwards there will be food and rejoicing. For those planning to attend, you now have the date. :)
It's been a few months, but once again I'm off to another conference to showcase my work. This time I head to San Francisco, a city I've never been to before. I'm leaving early to spend some time with my friend Blake and see the sights. When I get back next week that will mark the last trip for me as a grad student. From then on I finish writing my thesis and defend!
After some prodding from a medical student in my lab I decided to get a physical to start off 2008 on the right foot. As it turns out I hadn't been to my doctor in about 5 years, which was when I had pneumonia. I'm a very active guy, so I didn't expect any real problems. I got my bloodwork back today and the results were good. Everything was in order including my cholesterol. However, I was informed that I had higher than normal levels of bilirubin (seen right). The diagnosis? I have a disorder known as Gilbert's Syndrome. Eeeeeek!
Now that we're coming up to a new year I figured I would update everyone on my career status. There is actually some great news on this front. My supervisory committee met a few weeks ago and we went over the work I have done thus far. They were very pleased and said I can finish analysis on my current project, write, and defend my Ph.D. in March/April.
This past weekend my local community was lucky to have the Magic World Championships in our very own NYC. Congrats to Uri from Israel (left) for winning. I volunteered to judge the event which spanned four days, each of which were very long. This was the longest consecutive multi-day event I've ever judged and it was fairly debilitating; we completed 5 days of tournaments in only 4 days.