Internet, Come Back!

My cable service went down for at least an hour tonight. No TV, no internet make Jeffrey go something-something. That's the reason for the late update tonight.

I didn't think to mention yesterday - I told MDA that I could start September 4. My assistantship ends August 31, then there's the Labor Day holiday, so that's as soon as I could start according to my contract with UTSI. I may commute from here for a while at the beginning. It's mostly due to a problem with timing my lease here with any lease down there. I have to give 30 days notice here, and I doubt anyone there would want to start a lease contract on some random day mid-month. If I can arrange a lease starting September 15, that's what I'm going to try to do, but it may be October 1 before I move. I don't look forward to the drive everyday (it's close to 60 miles each way), but it's not the end of the world.

I got my MATLAB program commented up and copied into Word for my thesis. I don't know what they're going to say about leaving it in MATLAB fonts and colors, but that's a small matter to change, if I have to. I need to have most of the paper done by early this week, because it's only about another week until I have to defend, and I think my committee is supposed to have a copy of the thesis a week before I defend. I hate pre-deadlines like that. Knoxville only lists "Thesis due by August 17" on the schedule, but it has to be defended a week before that, and given to professors a week before that, so in reality, the completion deadline is August 3. Mine is a little sooner than that, just because Dr. Vakili will be gone for a couple days right at the end of that deadline period. Still, put the deadlines on a calendar, not buried as footnotes somewhere.

Almost time to enter the real world. I feel old. More tomorrow.