Ramblings from a coffee addicted, takes herself too seriously, literary buff.
Hooray! I love summer time.
BBQ’s, picnics, bike rides and trips to the beach.
Things I’m looking forward to this summer:
~ A college reunion weekend
~ Family reunion (yes this is the summer of reunions)
~ 4th of July in Portland
~ week long trip to the coast
~ working in my garden
~ scrapbooking
~ reading a lot of good books!
Today consisted of a very early morning (I should stress the early since I usually don’t get out of bed before 7am and today I was already on my way to work by then), an interesting and somewhat scary lecture on lab safety and then a lonnnnggg wait in the HR office. Don’t we all love academic politics?
Then this afternoon I spent a chunk of time actually in the labs with participants which was a blast. We worked on an SEM (Scanning Electron Microscopy) and I had a chance to get to know a few students a lot better. They’re going to be a great group, I can tell. I am actually excited to spend the summer working with them. Our group meetings should be a blast!
All in all, I am more than ready to go home, only not really since I am also dog-sitting, and put my feet up. I have a women’s prayer group tonight and if I have anything to say about it we will be sitting out on the lawn, barefoot and enjoying the last rays of sunshine. That’s the only thing about working during the summer, less time out-of-doors. Bummer….
Originally uploaded by mandrin_duck.
This is Bryan’s back after he biffed it in a go-kart out behind his parents house this weekend. You should see the go-kart, it’s in a whole lot worse condition.
Today was my first official fully day as the REU assistant in the Physics department at PSU. It has been quite exciting and very busy. I havn’t work a full 8 hour shift in a long time since I have been in school for ages and that makes life less orderly and more chaotic. I was worried it might drag a little but actually I have had enough adventures to keep me quite busy and now that I am an hour away from getting off, I finally get to sit at my desk and recuperate a little. My lunch break was officially 15 minutes long because students needed directions and pictures needed to be taken.
I learned some interesting things about Electron Microscopy, had a flying spider land on my arm (no I did not scream but I really wanted to) and got to listen to a conversation with a professor who spoke mostly French and was trying to explain scientific data that I was clueless about.