go zeta booth! 1st place! WAHOO!!! i can't wait to see pictures! hint hint hint!

so here i am still wishing i was with you all in pittsburgh. though, it has been a really fun week ( Read more... )

So today was my little sister's 21st birthday! happy birthday to lucy, and many more. scary that she's 21 ( Read more... )

the 80s party ruled! i had a great time, i even got to crimp my hair, which i've never gotten to do before!! :) they did 80s trivia, which i was not as good as i should have been at...guess i gotta do some learning before next year... :P Everyone had great 80s outfits. it was awesome ( Read more... )

So this morning i woke up and finished up my taxes to send out. then i took a walk to the post office, walked to the jewel to do grocery shopping. I can't remember really the last time i went grocery shopping- some time in march i think, but between noah and gail's visits and the prospective weekend, i ate out more than i had planned, so i didn't ( Read more... )

this week i had the opportunity to go to 2 passover seders. They were really neat- David and Cheryl hosted one on Monday night, and Jess's family had one on tuesday. I was fortunate to have been invited to attend both, and they were both really cool. it was neat seeing and learning about their holiday, which i had only briefly learned about before ( Read more... )

so the second weekend of recruitment just happened. it was a blast. i was all over this one- i did everything i could except drive kids to dinner bc i was discriminated against since i don't have a car (yet!!!). so i ended up going out with them friday night- we went to a bar john barleycorns, whcih was really cool. half of them wanted to go to a ( Read more... )

So. its been a while, and a busy while. so here's the scoop for those that want to read it... :)

( Weekend with NOAH! )

Happy Happy Day! I got an NSF Fellowship!!!!!

for those that do not know, this is a very prestigious graduate research fellowship which increases my stipend GREATLY! YAY! my roommate jess got the same one as me, and matt steve and dave also got a different one! it was a great day! :):):):)

more about my fantastic weekend with noah later!

so ... the rest of this week, i did minimal work, went to the gym every day after school, went to the bar thursday night, which of course was fun, it was good to be there, since I had to skip last week! and yesterday after the gym, jess and I went out to woodfield shopping- its like one of the biggest malls ever (i might be wrong but i think its ( Read more... )