Building a committee

I met with the department head today, who is also a Stats guy. We talked for a while on my research and what I was trying to accomplish this summer. He's interested. As with my primary adviser, he only has limited availability this summer, but he agreed to look over my work as time permits. He also gave me a good starting reference for clustering. So, while what I really wanted was for him to agree to a directed readings course this summer, I didn't come away empty handed. If nothing else, he'll be familiar with my work when I inevitably ask him to be on my dissertation committee next year.