The second paper that I wanted to write for the ACM CHI conference doesn't have the basis in the literature that I was hoping for, so the bad news is that I won't be writing another paper for this year's conference, but the good news is that I'm feeling a lot less pressure today :)
And speaking of today, I turned 40 a little while ago ... sometime around 6:30am in Austin, TX. My mom says that there were three tornadoes over the hospital at the time, as a result of a hurricane off the coast — I suppose that's like me, to want to make an entrance :)
This morning, I was greeted by my almost-8-year-old and my husband singing a round of Happy Birthday, which they delivered with seven birthday cards (5 from Rachel, 2 from Tom). What a fantastic way to start a new decade ...