Well we made it home safely last night. Back to life as usual today.
Archive for March, 2009
Back to the grind
March 31st, 2009Relaxing…
March 28th, 2009Well we arrived alright yesterday. No issues with our flight. Upon landing we went to visit Chase’s grandparents out in Beverly Hills. We spent the afternoon visiting them and then drove back to the other side of the panhandle to relax at his parent’s house. Chase kicked our butt’s at Phase 10 (Mary-Jane introduced/reintroduced the game to us just recently).
So far today it’s been nice just hanging around the house relaxing. I’m definitely enjoying the near 80 °F and nice breeze. We just heard that the landing of the Discovery has been postponed an hour and half. We’re hoping to be able to drive out towards the beach and take a few pictures as it lands. It was pretty neat. The wind wasn’t cooperating earlier so they pushed back the landing until 3ish.
After the landing, we came back and relaxed poolside. Then started working on dinner. This evening Chase and I are making West End london broil. Chase found the recipe online a few weeks ago. We tried it out at home and it was so delicious so we decided to bring it with us.
And away we go again. . .
March 27th, 2009Well here we go again. Katie and I are waiting in the airport ready to travel again. It seems this blog gets more action (posts/pictures) when we travel. This time we are heading down to Florida to visit my parents. We will hopefully get to see the shuttle land, it’s probably not as cool as a launch, but cool nonetheless. We hope to catch a shuttle launch before the program ends next year. Anyway, Katie’s almost back with some juice and then off to Orlando in about 45 minutes. Lots of pictures to come 
Break time
March 23rd, 2009So I’m taking a quick break at school from writing (ugh, still at it) my thesis to write a quick update post.
Chase and I are doing well. We’re looking forward to our extended weekend in Titusville this upcoming weekend. I think we both need it to prevent burn out. It looks like we’ll be there for the landing of the shuttle, which I think will be pretty awesome. Plus we’ll get to spend some quality time lounging in/around the pool and not thinking about work or school.
Back to now though, I’m finally working on the last couple of drafts before my thesis is distributed to my committee. To put it in perspective, I give a copy to each committee member. They then have 10 days to read, comment, correct, and review my thesis. Then I defend it–they ask me questions about my work and anything related to it for a few hours. Sometime in those 10 days I’ll give a talk to my entire department on my work (about 45 min). After my defense I’ll have about a week to make any corrections before I submit my final copy to the library, where they’ll look over it to make sure it adheres to all the necessary standards and if it does and I have all my signatures then they’ll publish it and I’ll officially be done. For anyone keeping track I still have to write my table of contents (including the list of figures, list of tables, and list of schemes), abstract, and experimental–and I’m already past 115 pages.
Snow Day
March 2nd, 2009Evidently this is the first time since December 2005 the Richmond-metro area has received more than 4 inches of snow. Guesstimating we have about 6-8 inches here at our apartment. Given that, last night VCU said we would have a 2-hour delay. It took them an additional 11 hours (until 8am) to determine that they should probably just close instead. As for driving, based on the traffic reports from TV and Chase’s experience into work today, very few people know how to drive in this weather. The silver lining, I get a whole day without distractions (friends, reactions, Chase) to work on writing and the dogs get to play in the snow.
This past weekend I installed a new processor and motherboard I reformatted my computer so I’m still trying to get everything set up properly. That being said, I have some snow pix, but you’ll have to wait until Chase gets home to see them. and they’re now up in the photo gallery.
