OK, OK. I know it's been much too long since I put anything up here. But I have tried a few times and the system has been down. Here's the big news...

I'm a Candidate of Philosophy! That's right, I defended my proposal on 10/1/2003. I passed and am offically working on my dissertation now. I started data collection on 10/14/2003. So far, so good. I'll keep you posted.

Marcus nearly choked to death! True. While I was defending my proposal, Michelle was trying desperately to get a checker out of his throat. Thank God Matthew was paying attention. Michelle was in the kitchen and Matthew started screaming for her. She ran in and he was pointing at Marcus who was blue in the face and coudln't breathe. She started trying to get the checker out while Matthew called 9-1-1. What an ordeal. It came out shortly after and all is well now.

ICIS Bound I'm offically going to the ICIS Doctoral Consortium. That is very exciting to me because it was one of my goals when I came to IU. It's a pretty selective consortium and many of the leading people in the field have attended it in the past. Including, Brad Wheeler, Brad Crisp, George Marakas.

More to come later. . . .