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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Vacation: Day 4

Well, the day is not yet done, but I have ridden my bike, worked on the outline for Josh's paper, worked out at the gym, finished the outline for Josh's paper, taken a nap, and read some scifi. I'm hoping to get a little TV in and some sudoku puzzles.

It was really fun helping Josh do the outline for his paper. Part of me misses doing research papers. I love the logical outline and just the flow of it all! I must say though, that I'm not used to writing such short papers (8-10 pages) after my thesis. His outline, just the quotes and heading mind you, filled up 8 pages as it is, so I guess that I gave him an outline for about a 20 page paper. The whole thing, title page, abstract page, table of contents, outline, references and all took up 14 pages. He'll have to edit it down a bit, but at least he won't have to struggle to reach the minimum of 8 pages because he's already there. It's really cool to be able to help him out with something that I'm good at. He's good at so many things that I'm not that it's enjoyable to be able to give back a bit.

Well, I've done my writing for the day. I'm going to go relax more. =)

Sunday, July 27, 2008

Vacation: Day 2

Went to church, it was really good ... even though I only listened to about 1/2 the message. It gave me some things to think about. I'm getting to know people at church too (besides my family) because of choir, which is pretty nice. I have people to say "hi" to.

Afterwards I have lunch at Bachan's (dimsum) and then went to Borders with Auntie, where I spent over $100 on my Summer reading. My Summer reading list includes Science (Astronomy, Physics, Particle Physics), SciFi/Fantasy, and Sudoku puzzles. Auntie and I are going to join the local Astronomy Club. I'm so excited! We'll meet in the park once a week and look at the skies and then we'll go to the Observatory once a month and hear lectures from people who work for NASA. SWEET!

For dinner we have Lucille's (yummy!) and now I really really really have way too much food in my fridge. That's probably good though, because for once I'll actually be at home to eat my meals! I solved my first Sudoku puzzles today, and after the first one they became a lot easier. At Borders I met a lady in the Scifi section that had the same tastes in books as I do and she introduced me to a new series, so I'm hoping that it'll be good. In the physics department, I got help from the clerk because I found this neat looking book by Smoot called Wrinkles in Time and Auntie wanted a copy so I went to ask after one. By that time I had a stack of 8 books or so and the clerk had read a lot of the Physics/Math books that I had and it was really fun chatting. He said that my science picks were good ones. I can't wait to read them all!

One of my books is really neat - it shows the constellations and then tells you which nebulas and galaxies are connected with them. Orion has a couple of good ones! It would be neat to travel to the Southern Hemisphere and see all the different constellations that they have.

Josh is having trouble writing a paper of his on the ethics of Adams vs Texas. He's still in the research stage and can't find much. I'm going to see if I can't find something to help him out. If you all know of any sources on this (it's also a movie "The Thin Blue Line") then let me know, ok? Thanks! It's his first graduate level paper and I want it to go well with him. Plus he has to learn how to write in APA. I remember wrestling with that on my thesis. Fun times. Please do pray.

That's in on the vacationing front for now. I will leave you with the most striking thing that I learned today - one of those 'I can't believe that I didn't think of that before' type things. There are 4 main forces in the world - gravity, electromagnetic, strong, and weak. The strong force is the one that holds all the positive protons together in the nucleus of an atom. It never occurred to me before that of course the protons wouldn't like sticking to each other. I can't believe I never thought of that before. (I also can't believe how little we know about these forces! What are they exactly? umm... we dunno.)

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Vacation: Day 1

Today I picked up the kitchen a bit. I made garlic mashed potatoes for breakfast, creamy spicy spinach soup for lunch. I couldn't decide about dinner, so I'm making both chili and Swedish meatballs - two of my childhood favs. I loved making chili with my sister - the awesome responsibility of MAKING dinner, shared with the great company brings back sweet sweet memories. Hey Jess, wanna make chocolate covered bananas again sometime? And the Swedish meatballs? Those were nights when the whole house smell good for hours before we were allowed to eat any. Mom would crockpot them for hours to coax that rich flavor out. I would spend the hours before dinner smelling the tantalizing whiffs that escaped the kitchen. Sometimes, on really special times, Mom would let me have one meatball before dinner. I knew that I was loved.

Today is also the first day that I bought alcohol and didn't get carded. I bought some red wine to help make the sauce for the meatballs, and it wasn't until the meatballs were frying that I realized that I hadn't been carded. In celebration I'm drinking some of the left over red wine. =) Don't worry though, I'm not hiccuping yet. ;D My house smells like a home now. Like my home. It still needs to be picked up, but having good food is a good start to relaxing.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Latest Happenings

We're going to try and buy a house. We hung out with friends from Josh's work last night - Jason and his wife Ericka. They were really sweet people. It's good to know that there are good people for Josh to be around at work. They are also really good parents and Jason encourages Josh to have children (yay!). I have today and tomorrow left of Summer School and I can't wait to be done! I'm so tired and fighting this fever that keeps coming back in the afternoon. Josh wants a dog - a German Shepard. So maybe in a year or so we'll have a house, a dog, and a baby on the way. I hope so.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

two poems

From the past month and a half.

Confounded
Languishing Love
Lifting embers that
refuse to hold the glow.
Slowly dying.
Which is better? A slow
pain or an icy blow?
A sudden storm to
end it all.
Let icy winter bury me until
a Spring Sun
promises life
once more.

Married at Night
Sleeping bodies
Night time sighs
Gentle warmth
Like lullabies
My head
Your shoulder
soft smooth skin
Blankets tangled
sleep to win
Daybreak ends our
Married bliss
Each day I wait
for Night's cool kiss.

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