I got into IU grad school for biogeochemistry! I'm working out the details to see if I want to accept...I will. Very exciting!!!

Marge and I were decorating the tree today, what I feared the most, and she began to tell me about her childhood tree decorating. She said they had a string of sixteen lights and very few ornaments, so placement was critical. On our tree, we have two strands of hundreds of lights and countless ornaments, therefore placement is not critical. From ( Read more... )

I want to be either running or studying for the GRE, but I'm being Christmased by Marge. What does that entail? Endless dusting, which makes me ill because I'm allergic to dust (as if anyone isn't), endless shifting and re-shifting of furnature, and endless fussing about. We haven't even started on the tree. Now, I love my mother, I really do, but ( Read more... )

I got the paleo-education internship at the Badlands, but I still haven't heard back from the Svalbard (Arctic) folks. I'm very excited and have been already thinking about transportation and planning and such! I read that they have fossil pigs, horses, rhinoceros, etc. there...I haven't really seen too many mammal skeletons, so this will be ( Read more... )

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Check out my car at http://www.laurenm.myphotoalbum.com I just got a digital camera today!!! I got the car yesterday and the first song I played in it in the cd player was Mellencamp's "I saw you first." Swoon. I e-mailed people the link, too, so check your e-mail to read the ( Read more... )