Tons Better

I had a nice meeting and dinner with my advisor yesterday and am feeling *tons* better about my work and our relationship. I had started to think he hated me between the super critical feedback on my dissertation drafts and lack of communication. And I was even able to smile and act nonplussed when he said he hadn't read the most recent chapter (submitted three weeks ago) because I was drinking a beer he payed for. We talked about my research and how he thinks it will actually make a contribution to the field and how he also thinks it will make a nice article in a major journal. More smiling for me. So I'm back to loving my chair after many, many months of cursing his name.