Dissertation proposal is in five days. June 29th. For those of you not keeping up with the minutia of my life, the proposal presentation is the climax of grad school. After that, it's all denouement. You get through the proposal, and you've basically got a contract for your dissertation. As long as you do what you and the committee agreed upon, you win.

Naturally, I'm hells-of-excited. Not too anxious, really. The dissertation is on topics I've studied heavily: flow, serious games, play, learning, motivation. I feel like I could talk about these things in my sleep. Today, I practiced the presentation on an exercise bike.

In five days, I'll be done with it. Then I can focus my efforts on landing a job. User Experience work in the game industry, por favor.