09.04.09
Drive to Work
Here it is, before 7am and I’ve dragged myself out of bed and into the office.
I was rewarded with a gorgeous rainbow on the way. A good reminder of God’s faithfulness.
12.06.08
Team Art Work
It’s just another day in the office complete with paint, mosaic tiles, crafty paper, and really cool frames to work with. This week our marketing director and I set up an internal marketing/team building exercise where all of us spent a day visually representing our core values in a variety of different mediums. The results were pretty amazing and the process was so much fun!
10.24.07
Growing
God is growing Bryan and I. Just when we thought it was time to hunker down and wallow beneath a pile of “to-dos” a mile long, God seems to be building us up and preparing us for future responsibilities. Amazingly enough, I don’t feel overwhelmed. I have come to fully believe that God really does only give us as much as we can handle.
My job has been particularly stressful lately and we had started discussing alternatives that would free up some of my time. Just when I though I couldn’t handle it any more, I have been given a few weeks reprieve and will be telecommuting for the most part. On the same note, I haven’t been getting exercise lately and it has affected my sleep and thus my health but now that pockets of time have opened up I can actually make it to the gym.
Another big breakthrough this week may seem insignificant to most of you but was a major hurdle for me. I wrote a paper on Monday that wasn’t due until Thursday. I am the world’s greatest procrastinator. My mind catalogs everything constantly so I don’t take many notes and I have trouble spitting out all those thoughts until hours before the paper is due. However, I am trying to break that habit, or at least not rely on it so much, and my reward is more time with my husband and the chance to get ahead in my readings. Hooray!
06.19.07
Fun in the Physics Dept.
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….
06.18.07
First Day at Work
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.
