update

It's been a few days, but life kinda got crazy on me.  It was wonderful to have a long weekend of no work and to have the 7th & 8th off from the lab.  However, the usual daily grind began again on Wednesday.  It wasn't a bad week by any means.  I'm a little excited about Monday because we have 5 families coming in and I get to test all 5!

Mom and I've been doing a lot of yardwork lately, so I'm sleeping really really well.  The yard also looks pretty good, too, since we've put in some new flowers, weeded a couple beds, trimmed back some wayward branches and done a lot of watering.  There's still quite a bit to go, though.  I'm hoping that tomorrow Dad and I will successfully install a french drain so that we don't have quite such a runoff problem.  If this one works, we're gonna get at least one more.  However, getting Dad to do much of anything these days is rough.  I was amazed he helped us water everything tonight.  Granted, Mom and I were the ones pulling up trees and such, but hey.

I'm still trucking away at trying to narrow down my grad school options.  Additionally, I still need to take the GRE, choose an empirical thesis project, finalize a HoScho thesis topic, and prepare for comps.  Ugh.  I though summer was supposed to be a break!