Tuesday I moved into the Duck. Wednesday and Thursday I helped with Fanfare, a band program at freshmen orientation. It was what I love about Band. There were two other tubas, so I had a section. Playing music together and meeting people ( Read more... )

I really don't do well with endings. Most students dread the end of the semester. I do, too, for a different reason: it ends. Recent events have shown that things will never be like last semester (but that's ok, because they'll still be good). The end of my internship is no exception.

I did a formal presentation today. This involved me wearing ( Read more... )

This is my last week at work full time. It's definitely helped me overcome the lack of confidence and the fact that people are older. People were friendly when I started, but now I feel like I know them a bit. Alex has a cell phone ring that's catchy and I like to dance to it. Well, he changed it and I inquired why. He said he'd change it back ( Read more... )

Tomorrow's Cristina's last day. :( I'll miss her but we have another intern. There's a chance I might work a bit in the fall. They've tentatively asked me to come back because (aside from getting things done) I smile. Yes, because I smile.

Last week Lisa Seidel had Anne, AP and I over for dinner. The theme was Peanuts from Around the World. ( Read more... )

Dave is visiting, so Laura, Dave, Bob and I headed to see the Tri City Valley Cats. Baseball on TV is, in my opinion, incredibly boring. However in person it's quite relaxing and enjoyable!

Maine. Where we've gone for the past 16 years (except the one year the Crillys were overseas) to convalesce. For years I thought "convalesce" meant gab, as was the context our fathers used it. It however means to recover.

I was excited about being by the lake again, seeing old friends, having our cousins there and an RPI roommate of our fathers ( Read more... )

They're really starting to become like family. Not in the "I've known you for years" sense, but in the caring sense. Like how Alex, Dave and Pei welcome me to the lunch line. Alex always asks if I still want to be an engineer and mentions that it's hard being a woman in engineering (which is a true statement) and then Dave and Pei start coming to ( Read more... )

My grandparents were away, so Dad trapped Casey in the car to talk about his thesis and picked 44 Quarts of strawberries! I made biscuits and had my strawberry shortcake. To me, that's summer.
In other news, the Company Picnic is tomorrow. And I now carry a tape measure (metric and inch!) on my belt. o.O

Today was a fun day. Laura and I met up with Andrea. After a turkey and asparagus sandwich (yum!), we spent hours in Michael's drooling over crafty things. I now have further equipment to torture Bob for the ugly vest (the Bobstrosity ( Read more... )

Karen came to Troy this weekend :D. Ahh, it was so good to see her. We went to the KCF Bible study on Friday; talk about a really diverse and encouraging group of people. Afterwards we danced in the rain. It was good to talk.

On Sat after going to the gym we borrowed movies from the library. We watched Singin in the Rain, a classic and ate ( Read more... )