there's liquid in that glass?

Well, despite vibrating with anxiety yesterday, the meeting went as well as could be expected. My dissertation topic has shifted -- again -- and I have a "new" focus. I need to write yet another proposal (this is what I have become quite good at -- it's all I ever write) and submit it to the committee sometime within the next two weeks. The committee was actually very helpful, though, despite my feeling that writing another proposal is a set-back (I've stopped naming the various versions with a number after the title because that's just too discouraging). My adviser and I were locked in the same cycle of unmet expectations and unshared pre-suppositions but the balance of the other two people facilitated some better communication and I do feel like the adviser and I have reached a compromise about where the dissertation is going. This I owe to my other committee members. I'm thinking that the Harry and David year of great fruit might be in order. Maybe after I get to write something besides another proposal.