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June 30, 2004
the hardest to learn was the least complicated
I'm at science camp a.k.a the Gorden Research Conference on Tribology. I'm in Rhode Island at Roger-Williams University. It is pretty up here. It is my first visit to New England and i must say it lots much like some of the south...rolling hills, lots of trees, water. More big bridges though. This conference is really really interesting. First is relatively small with ~70 participates. We all are staying in the apartment style dorms on campus. We eat every meal together. This induces lots and lots of social interaction. That is what i am enjoying the most. Usually at conference i go into anti-social conference mode. Here i am made to talk to people are we sit together at meals. I am reminded how much i really do enjoy chatting with interesting people. I've also gotten to chat a lot with the guy who pioneered the work I've based my work on. He works are Argonne national lab and is a ga tech alumni, which is also cool. I think that i'm going to actually start working with him a little as Argonne is a touch south of Chicago and they have a characterization instrument that i really want to use but don't have access to one northwestern.
The daily schedule is also interesting. The only talks given are invited talk by leaders in the subject. They last 40 mins and then have 20 mins of open discussion that is much like a workshop as people talk about ideas and problems and challenges, instead of just asking for clarifications on the presentation. We also only have morning talks and evening talks. We have the afternoon. It makes it easier to sit through the sessions. It also give you the opportunity to do things in the area. I like it as it gives me the opportunity to run. Monday i just ran around campus and then took the bus into newport and walked around there. it was quaint harbor town. though all the towns and such are on water of some sort. The campus sits on the water. Monday night i was at the poster sessions (as i presented my poster) until midnight. then back up the next morning. i was quite tired. I complained that this conference doesn't give me enough sleep and i'm 25! There are much older people here. So tuesday afternoon i took a much needed nap and then ran into bristol, the small town rwu is close to. it was a nice run, though they have hills around here and my bum is not a fan at all. it has been sore since my first run on monday. but it is good practice for the hiking of next week. this afternoon i repeat yesterday. i dreamed a lot during my nap today and it was strange. i remembered why i'm not a fan of naps in general. yesterday's nap was great. today was strange. i don't really like the unable to get up feel. like you might die if you wake up. that i was so so so confused where i was the moment i woke up. but that was also a function of the strange dreams.
one of my favoirte memories so far is walking back monday night with this prof george from northeastern i believe from the poster session. we came upon my advisor and larry the guy from catapillar chatting outside the building we are all staying. We stopped to chat with them and all the sudden my advisor is showing use a card trick and then george shows one. it was quite amusing. there i was at 12:30 in rural rhode island with a couple of scientist who are entertianing me and the others with card tricks.
second favorite - as i was sitting outside yesterday night after chatting with liz, who i get to see saturday as she'll be at her 'rents for the holiday weekend (yay!), i was dialing ben and the skunk ran past me. it was beautiful. though i wonder if i should take it as a sign about ben. ; )
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Posted by christina at 4:51 PM | Comments (0)
June 26, 2004
good god people. i am
good god people.
i am a huge support of the democratic us senate nominee for IL, B. Obama. I think that he is going to go really far in my life time.
as much as i want him to win, i don't want it to be this way. since the primaries, the media has been sueing to open up his republicain challenger's, jack ryan, divorce records. Obama has stayed out of this fight, going as far as to say that the allegations in the record are personal and have no bearing on the race.
the media won, and the records were unsealed. turns out jack alledgly propositioned his then wife to have have sex in from of people at a sex club. HOW DOES THIS MATTER??? it doesn't effect his ability to govern, you know. (he was trailing obama widely in the polls even before the allegations became public). i find this type of personal attacks make politics as distasteful as they are. it was a marriage. he didn't do anything wrong or immoral. proposition your WIFE is not a crime. jeez.
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Posted by christina at 9:16 AM | Comments (0)
June 25, 2004
and you move like water / i could drown in you
The other day, in my ticketmaster what's happening in your area e-mail, a bela fleck and the flecktones concert appeared for last night. I made sure that ben was free (like he wouldn't be) and got a pair of tickets as ben loves bela fleck. The concert was in Normal, IL, which is about 120 miles south of chicago toward St. Louis. It was on a college campus, which made it make a little more sense that the concert was in the middle of No Where, IL, but it was june, and so it was kinda strange, especially since 5 days after the tickets went on sale, there was not one on the orchestra level.
We left 3.5 hours to get 120 miles including dinner. It took us every minute with no dinner and only one stop to get down there. Traffic was horrible getting out of town...we knew it would be bad, but not that bad. It was ridiculous. And then we hit road construction signs and break lights and basically gave up hope of getting to the concert at all. We figured out if we didn’t make it to Joliet by 7 pm (2.5 hours after we left and only 50 miles from ben’s) that we would just turn around.
Turned out that the brake lights were for a run of the mill normally there three lanes going down to two and because the population cannot merge like sane individual, brake lights. One we got past that, it was smooth sailing, though we did cut it close.
We got there at 7:45 for the 8 pm concert. We drove through Normal, ben remarking that it is an itsy bitsy town, I explaining that it was about the size of hot springs and how we have such different definations. We find the student center / auditorium as we watch in amazement the millions of high school students streaming toward it. From careful inspection, the flags in the hands of a fair amount of the kids, we figure out we’ve found ourselves in the middle of BAND CAMP!!!!! It was awesome. Ben and I both went to band camp and have great memories…plus there’s always one time at band camp. Turns out it wasn’t just any band camp it was like the band camp. The 2004 Bands of America Summer Symposium band camp. And that the Bela Fleck concert was their entertainment for the evening. Totally explained the lack of ticket options I had. There a small pocket of the general public, but the rest was open seating for the kids and directors.
It was quite the sight and the experience. I joked that we should have knocked down a couple of kids, stolen their badges and sat down on the orchestra level. Though I’m sure we had a much calmer time in the general public section consisting of an interesting mix of stoners and people my parents age that probably were stoners once. It was a great concert. The flectones are a jam band. Of course, I had no idea what a jam band was until I moved to chicago and became friends with steve who introduced me to the concept of Phish and the jam band. I really enjoyed Bela and the Flecktones. They are amazing artists. He plays the banjo. the banjo . Very cool. You should check them out.
The kids were kida annoying as they liked to clap along with everything, which doesn’t really work with this kind of music. It is much more complicated, and as ben said, they just aren’t old enough to grasp the complexity. The clappers were enough away from us and the sound system was good enough that it didn’t both me so much, but I was bothered by the people yelling at the clappers. Jesus. Anyways. It was a great concert. We had a great time. it was nice to spend some major quality time together as he is off to the Phish concert tonight and Sunday morning I leave for the conference a.k.a. science camp.
I’m off to dinner and a movie with tom.
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Posted by christina at 5:03 PM | Comments (0)
June 23, 2004
put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning
My dad is the best.
Life is quite crazy for me as I try to gather all my stuff for my conference next week (a.k.a science camp). (Should note conference readying becomes a lot less stressful when just presenting old data.) Anyways, in addition to that and training my summer student so that she can be somewhat productive while I’m gone, I’ve also been trying to figure out what we need for ben and I’s yellowstone trip. My dad has been amazing as he gathered up our family tent, a sleeping bag, a camping stove, a lantern, sleeping pads, and big army bags to put it all in so that we can check it on the plane. He loves to do that kind of stuff. He’s spent a lot of time camping, so he knew what to get. Also running errands in hot springs is way way easier than running errands in chicago (besides the grocery store). He’s sending it with the ups guy tomorrow to ben’s, as ben is home all the time, except in the event of a cubs game, and therefore can deal with delivery a whole lot better than I can. Especially since I’m leaving town.
It is strange, in a way, this yellowstone thing. It is ben and I’s first vacation together, and really, my first real adult vacation, the kind that doesn’t involve visiting someone or going home to my parent’s. it is also kinda a big deal as, well, ben and I will find out if we can truly exist together without being able to get away from each other. I don’t really doubt it, but it is kinda like one of those things.
Sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh sigh.
My summer student makes me sigh a lot. And not in a good way like mark pior does.
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Posted by christina at 1:56 PM | Comments (0)
June 21, 2004
we just like to see the boys hit em deep
In chicago, on Monday, a sun redded nose usually means a great weekend. Today, Monday, my nose is red and my weekend was great. It was both freezing and beautiful, and all together fabulous.
Friday evening, I spent a quite night with my b/f consisting of pizza, laundry (yay!), a movie, and meeting a new boy of a friend. All together perfect. Saturday appeared warm, but from the top deck of wriggley where we spent early afternoon with ben’s dad, it was quite chilly. It was a fabulous game, even though the cub trailed for most of the game. I got to chat a lot with ben’s dad, which, I think drives ben a little crazy cuz we’re suppose to watch the game!, but his dad and I enjoy chatting and so we did. Though there have come to be many things that I enjoy about the cubs tickets, spending time with ben’s family is definitely high on the list. It is the perfect situation as we don’t have to make conversation the whole time b/c there is a game to watch, but can chat leisurely as desired. The cub won the game in a dramatic fashion in the bottom of the 9th. It was awesome. The whole stadium shook as everyone jumped to their feet to cheer the winning runs home. Thank GOD it didn’t go into extra innings, as at that point, it were close to frozen.
I saw saved! Saturday night. Excellent movie. It was one of the funniest movies I’ve ever seen. I do love a good religious satire.
Sunday was another cubs game. (Yeah, I usually don’t go both days but because of random events I did.) I got to use the extra tickets and so steve and leta joined us. It was great fun. Steve and ben get along famously and so leta and I spent the whole game catching up. It was a beautiful day. I’d had a great run that morning, which is where I believe I got all the sun. The game was perfect weather, with cubs leading the whole time. After, leta and I met marina in our neighborhood for some yummy greek food. I ate way way too much and between the sun I’d gotten that day and the busy weekend, I was totally ready to sleep at 9 (about 10.5 hours after I’d gotten out of bed), though made myself stay up until 10 so I would sleep through the night.
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Posted by christina at 12:37 PM | Comments (0)
June 18, 2004
you can't find the answers / till you learn to question
Yum. My sandwich is very good. It is the other half from lunch yesterday. My sweet boyfriend came up and took me out to lunch to his favorite sandwich shops, which is so so good. {my lab smells like grilling hamburgers, strange. Must investigate.}
I’m currently reading about the 9/11 report. The report is amazing in its detail. It was very interesting yesterday on npr to listening to tapes of the air traffic controllers. It also makes me remember that day. I was still in the rehab hospital in atlanta. I was surrounded by people with much larger problems than a fear of an airplane crashing into their building. I was surrounded by people who all their time and energy was spent on staying alive. They had none left over for the politics of the day. They had no hope of walking again. Some of them, I bet, wished they would have died.
Of course, the coverage was on all the tvs. When the second plane crashed I was having ultrasonic waves applied to my very upset hip bursa by my PT. We were insluated a bit, due to the world we all existed in. Two ways it directly impacted my life – one, liz got ground in atlanta, so she got to hang out more and go to chatanoga with jenny and I for our caretaker outing. I ended up flying home just a week or so after. Me and my speedy recovery took everyone by surprise, and so I was off the first weekend they allowed air travel. My dad made me fly first class. It was nice. I got a salad for the short flight between atlanta and little rock. He was right, though, when I protested, there are few times in your life that it is worth flying first class – and the flight home after 2 months in the hospital is one of them. This was, of course, when I was still an unstable walker. And definitely slow. I stayed close to walls. I had to pause to muscle spams (though I really feel that the muscle relaxants that I took to try to stop the muscle spams caused the spams, as I had been on them since the accident.)
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Posted by christina at 2:45 PM | Comments (0)
June 16, 2004
there’s a whole lot of singing / that ain’t gonna be heard
Do you even start the day just knowing it is going to be bad? …cuz the night before you picked a fight with your boyfriend over something stupid and were up late – mainly because you were trying to find reason in what you did. And so you drag yourself away from your sleeping boyfriend’s form – the form that gets to sleep as long as he wants as he has no job (besides today to get you parking permits). And your car is parked further than normal and you still feel bad about the night before and your brain just won’t shut up.
And you make yourself run, mainly because you don’t need another thing to feel guilty about, even though you are tired. But first the run isn’t that hard, and then you see that scene that makes it all worth it. Two small children – one with a ferret slung over her shoulder and the other with a puppy (a true puppy) on a leash. It was awesome.
And you get to school to find a compliment from your advisor. And the thing you were convinced wouldn’t work (from your past experience with non-conducting targets plus the lack of literature on dc magnetron sputtering of Si) somehow works. at least you got a plasma at a pressure and voltage that is reasonable. And it looks like you are going to be able to test the current solution to your film adhesion problem that has been taunting you for a while. and you manage to get a hair appointment for that afternoon, finally crossing something off that's been on your to do list for a month.
And you get to have lunch with a good friend. And you remember that you are pretty much one of the luckiest people on the planet.
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Posted by christina at 11:03 AM | Comments (0)
June 14, 2004
And we'll all float on ok
ah...another conference. though, thank goodness, this is only one day. and only 2 hours from home. i got up severely early today as i wanted to build in some time for traffic. turns out, urbana, il has no traffic...especially in june (huge college town). so i got up at 4.30. was out the door by 5ish. was in urbana by 7.30. want to be here by 8.15. had time to spare, so i went shopping at wal-mart. i knew they would have one. every medium sized town in the us has a wal-mart..and there was one right off the highway. this wal-mart made me happy. one because it had potties and i had to go v. badly. two, because it had grape sugar free kool-aid, which is not sold in chicago, and it is cheaper than the sugar-free kool-aid in chicago. also had the crannberry juice i like for 2.50...a good 1.50 savings. so i got a couple of bottles of that...especially since i am about to have to start being all about the cranberry juice again. (we decided to only try 30 days of the bactrium and then see what happens. sigh, i don't want to see what happens (as seeing what happens means waiting until i get another UTI), but neither do i want to be on bactruim for the rest of my life. uck. so i guess we'll see.
anyways. i spoke this morning. it went well, i could give this talk in my sleep. i don't get many questions as, one, i don't make outlandish claims, and two, no one here really knows what i am doing. science is definitely a niche world. regional conferences (which i'm at) just don't attract enough people so that everyone is interested in everything. i am really not interested in another talk today...but am going to stick around cuz there are two invited talks that i hope will be interesting and i drove all the way down here, i should at least be exposed to new things. though the organizers annoyed me about parking. sigh. though, this conference is being held at northwestern next year, and seeing that i am the president of our student chapter, than i suspect that i will be helping a lot. and i'm going to make sure we have plenty of parking information. because i was wandering around looking for quarters for the meter (which is nicely right outside) because they didn't have visitor parking permits, i got a ticket. i didn't look at it and proceeded to put $4 in the meter for the rest of the day. i just looked at it. it is for $10. i should have just left the damn thing on my car all day and not fed the meter. it would have cost about the same. but i don't want to run the risk of them booting me or towing me. they were quick on the meter thing. (it had just been 20 minutes expired.) though i am parked a cross the street from the police station.
there are actually people i know at this conference, ie people i go to school with and enjoy knowing. but i am in conference mood and feel antisocial. i was waiting for them, but they were being slow and so i decided that i just would go eat by myself, with my new yorker. which just made me want to take the queen mary 2 across the atlantic...except for the rough seas, i think it would be a great way to get to (or from) england. and now i'm writing. we have an obscenely long lunch break for having lunch here. it is two hours. and had i not just fed the damn meter a bit ago, i might go back to wal-mart. : ) instead i'm writing. just as well, i've been a slacker. and then i'm going to play some spider solitaire and read my novel. a better day than i would be spending at work, though i would be being productive and not have gotten up at 4.30 this morning. (Reading Douglass's Women by Jewell Parker Rhodes. It is quite good. i got addicted very quickly. it is historical fiction based on Fraklin Douglass. oh i should mean, two thumbs up for A Ship Made of Paper. I just finished The Hazards of Good Breeding, i was intrigued how it was going to end, but in the end felt the book was good, but not great.)
Lunch was not very good, but i ate most of it anyway. why do i do that? i was hungry. (remember, i've now been up (it is 12:45) for 7 hours. but still. i should have just gotten lunch...but this was included in the registration. though i'm v. happy that even though i registered late (last monday), i still got the early registration fee. not that i'll end up paying for it, but i still would have felt bad.
anyways, it was a good weekend. warm and humid. saturday, ben and i did that extremely coupley thing of going to the grocery store together. he had a million things to get, so it was nice that between the two of us, we got it upstairs in one trip. now's he's happy cuz he now has a stock pile of meat in the freezer for when every he gets his baby webber grill up and running. i saw stepford wives with some friends saturday night. it was good. i didn't know how it was going to end, so it kept me guessing, which is good.
i want to say something that might or might not be unrelated...A CELL IS BIGGER THAN A NANOMETER!!! Therefore nano anything for a cell is impossible. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP USING THE PREFIX NANO JUST CUZ IT SOUNDS COOL!!!
whew. glad to get that off my chest.
i read a lot during the summer. it makes me happy. me reading, ben watching baseball. life is good sunday i ran by the lake in evanston. my first run by the lake of the season. the wind usually makes it too cold and windy to run by the lake. but it was so hot and humid this weekend, the lake was perfect. it was so blue and the white sails dotted the surface. the city gleamed in the sunlight. it was amazing. i forgot how beautiful that path is. my other routes are beautiful in their own ways too. saturday i ran in wiggleyville. that route takes me by beautiful cemeteries. i love to look at the headstones as i run past. and then when i am running back, the sears tower is right in my line of sight.
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Posted by christina at 1:00 PM | Comments (0)
June 10, 2004
there's a whole lot of singing that's never gonna be heard
It really amazes me how some people around here can be so nice. (ie the ME grad student that just took contact angle measurement for me, which, yay, confirmed our hypothesis.)
And then how there are some people who are not nice…who are lazy. I’m trying to get my summer student trained on the simlpies instrucment that I do characterization. It is basically impossible to break or mess up. and it is in a lab that is basically hazard free. Since I’ve know, they’ve trained summer students and undergrads on it. The training guy changed, and now they don’t train undergrad or summer student. They won’t explain if there was a change in policy or why it suddenly changed. Instead of dealing with me himself, the training guy bounced my questions to his boss. The training just is just a lab tech and his boss is not the nicest guy in the department. I’m not quite sure how to proceed. Currently, I’m trying to find out if the previous trainer (a grad student that is really nice) just trained undergrads and students under the radar, if so, I don’t want to push the issue. But if the new training guy is just being lazy, then this is stupid. I’m shocked that they don’t want to $100 I would have to pay them. It is such a strange situation that I’ve found myself in the middle of.
In other news, I changed the oil the oil in my vacuum pump. it was also awesome. it has been a really really long time (it just hadn't dawned on me that i should change it) and the oil was v. dirty, so i had to flush it a couple of times. it made me feel very engineerish...and it was also the first time that i have ever worn a lab coat in my lab. and saftely glasses...must admit didnt really want oil all over my clothes nor did i want hot oil in my eye. : )
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Posted by christina at 5:06 PM | Comments (0)
another white dash
One of my biggest pet peeves, currently, is the promotion of the hydrogen economy. (it is right after my annoyance with the label nanotechnology…and, horror of all horrors, I had to sit through a talk one combining nanotechonolgy and the hydrogen economy.)
I was horrified when bush annonced a chunk of research money to be spent on the hydrogen economy, after he slashed funding for previous administartion focus on making cars more fuel efficient. Fuel cells for cars are basically impossible and whatever slim possibility exists won’t come about until my children’s like time.
Hereis a great article from May’s issue of Scientific America. (You have to have a subscription to read it online, so I’ve posted it in word format. Yay for northwestern’s e-resources!) It basically says what I’ve already believed, it makes way way more sense to develop our technology for fuel efficient car (like hybrids), than to pour money into fuel cells for car. Read it. It is very interesting.
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Posted by christina at 11:37 AM | Comments (0)
June 7, 2004
something about having everything / you think you’ll ever need / sitting in the seat next to you
whew. Such is life.
I was at school all day Saturday for the presentations for one of my classes. My group went first, the presentation went well considering that we made a giant mistake, but didn’t know it. The strange thing is that all three of us made the same mistake independently. We each thought that the entry screen for the particle radius was in nanometers. Turns out that it was in angstroms. So it goes. It is something that our project advisor should have caught (that some how we were getting high strengths from low carbon contents.) It will not be that hard at all for me to redo stuff, but for the others, it is really going to mess up their stuff. I really would like to submit a revised report, just cuz it is a real project for a real company.
The other classes’s term paper was due at three. And I wanted to make a sample. So I was in and out of the presentations. More out than in. I meant to be more in. but at three when I was going to go back until 5, I just couldn’t find the motivation. I’m a giant slacker and the prof probably has a bad view of me, or more likely, he probably doesn’t care. Which I don’t. it just means that I am basically done with classes except for that. So instead I went for a great run. Then had dinner with tom, one of my favorite friends up here. Then down to ben’s for drinks with nick. Though I was soooo tired (it has been a hard couple of weeks), so was quiet. But we all enjoyed the people watching. Including this women’s thong, which we saw way way way too much of.
Sunday we went to the cub’s game with kit (ben’s mom) and emma (ben’s sister). It was a lot of fun. I enjoy hanging out with them. Though emma was giving me those you are strange (though in a good way) looks as my hot dog disintegrated in my hands. (turns out the hot dog buns are made to be eaten quickly and not filled with relish and tomatoes. Dude. It was sooo good.) the game was a really great game (cubs won.) I got some sun, which just crashed my body. I could hardly get myself home I was so tired.
I finally got my car in for an oil change this morning. Sigh. I’m a bad owner. I was like 2000 miles too late. So it goes. Strange thing is that the other saturn dealership I got the service done last time didn’t do the fuel injector cleaning…according to this saturn dealership. So I had them cleaned, and my engine flushed. It needed it. Though it was expensive. With the last saturn, I had gotten the extended service plan and so I never paid for any of this stuff. This go around, I decided it wasn’t worth it. Hmmmm. It probably isn’t, but I was fairly surprised to pay like $250 for service. And the next service is more, as they have to do something to the transmission. So it goes. It is worth it to avoid any major (and more costly) issues.
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Posted by christina at 4:31 PM | Comments (0)
June 3, 2004
you make me feel less crazy when otherwise i'd drown
When I get busy, the first thing I cut out are my runs. Ironic, because running is a huge stress reliever. It is amazing how much better I feel all day when I start my morning with a run. (it is also amazing how my fingers know where every key is on the keyboard. Though I don’t think I could tell them myself to find the z (I would have to look), somehow when I am typing, they know where every key is and even know the cadence of certain words. Quite amazing. Must like playing a music instrument when you get to that proficiency level where you don’t even think about play the music, you just produce the music.)
Anyways, for the first time since Sunday, I got my run in. It just makes my day so much better.
Though my group project for one of my classes is getting on my last nerve. Mainly because no matter how many times one of the other people e-mails me about a certain topic, he just confuses me more. I just wish he could figure out how to do it and then tell me. But I think that is the problem. He’s not sure himself. Sigh. I am so looking forward to Saturday as I shall be done done done. But it is so close. Uck.
Though I did make an appointment for an oil change on Monday morning. Yay. my car is badly in need of it. I’m a bad owner. But it is a juggle to get it done, and I just have had the room.
This story is interesting. It is about drug companies not releasing adverse data. It is funny as scientist all the time don’t say what didn’t work. But this is a whole different situation. It is drugs and people, one should release all the data. It makes me glad that I am not dealing with people…just films.
I hate weeks like this. Though to finally get to see ben last night was awesome.
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Posted by christina at 1:09 PM | Comments (0)
June 1, 2004
No book. Cuddle.
There are some moments where the stresses of the world fall away and all I’m left with is the knowledge of love. And I remember how crazy lucky (and in love) I am.
Carter and Sarah were here. It was fun. I tried to do it all – spend time with them, do my work required for the end of quarterness, sleep. I (we) didn’t get to see my wonderful boyfriend very much at all, as he also had a friend town – from further away. Drew. He’s in the peace corp in Nigre (sp?). I did get to meet him and spend time with them Sunday afternoon while sarah and carter were at the sox game. Then ben joined the three of us for dinner after the cubs game on Monday. It was fun visit. I wished that I hadn’t been so caught up in work, but so it goes. After Saturday I will be done with classes forever (at least for this degree). And on some level that freaks me, as it means that I inch toward my qualifier…and hopefully then my defense. And the I’m actually going to have to decide to what to do with my life. But that is 3+ years away, so I’m not stressing now.
More rain is suppose to come tonight. I have never ever seen as much rain in chicago as this past couple weeks. Crazy. I love it. I missed the spring thunderstorms of the south. Now they’ve come to visit. It makes baseball games dicey, but really, it is worth it.
Sigh. I have a 30 minute presentation in an hour. I really want to go first, even though my name is listed last. I hope I can. I like going first. I like being done. I’m really ready to be done. Though I must admit I am v. thankful the my 390 project is currently being reasonable.
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Posted by christina at 4:30 PM | Comments (0)