A dry run

I had a dry run of my dissertation proposal in front of my lab members: Kevin, Erin, Mahima, Jimmy, and Young Sang. Some joined partially, but most of them stayed for almost three hours with me. They all gave me constructive feedback even though some parts of my presentation were certainly boring and confusing. They were patient and didn't give me harsh comments. Anyway, I passed another step. Still, I have many changes to make on my presentation. I will send the updated version to my advisor sometime soon. The big time will be the next Thursday. I will spend almost the whole day to defend my proposal. Anyway, as I said, I passed another step today. I rewarded myself by allowing me to play basketball at 5pm today.

I just realized that I haven't allocate enough time to look back my life / direction. I certainly have one of happiest moments in my life, thanks to Stacy. However, I am too busy in crossing out items on my daily to-do list, and these activities do not involve with any deep thinking or contemplation at all. This is well reflected on this blog. I haven't posted any serious writing recently. No thought, no writing.

Well, from now on, I will have more writing here.