Wow, I can't believe it's been a month since my last post. Actually, I guess I can since Garrett reminded me a week ago that I have been neglecting my lj. I'm now safely in Seattle, but I feel like I have very little to share. I'm staying with my parents for now until I have a job lined up. Let's think of it as good motivation to get to work. ( Read more... )

Or actually, my sister does. If anyone can help her out, I'd greatly appreciate it. If you can post answers here, or email me at my ugcs email account (maryb), I'll be sure to pass the info along. Many thanks ( Read more... )

It's very strange. Today was my last day at work at Cessna. I have only been there for 8 months, but I really liked it there. I would get annoyed with it sometimes, but I had a great group of coworkers and bosses who gave me soem pretty interesting projects to work on. I have a few possible leads on jobs, but nothing definite yet. It will be ( Read more... )

So much has happened since my last post. I got my braces off, found someone interested in buying my car, broke my car (fuel pump died), flew to California for a job interview, made some changes to my thesis to make the committee happy, got my car fixed, didn't get the job, got boxes to move to Seattle, made more changes to my thesis to make my ( Read more... )

Whew! The defense is over. There was a bit of panic when I found out that one of the necessary forms had not been turned into the grad school by my advisor and one of my committee members did not show up. We got everything figured out with the grad school and called the professor at home. He thought that my defense was at noon and the one he's ( Read more... )

I'm home safely from a long weekend in California. It was so great to see everyone again. My thesis defense is in 5 days, so I'll probably just fall off the face of the planet until next week some time! Wheeee!!!

I finished my first draft of my thesis on Thursday night. I am so mentally exhausted now. I'm just ready to be done. Writing is very difficult for me, and something I have never been good at. I think that if I ever go back to school again, I'll be taking writing courses the whole time. This is really the first paper I've written on my own ( Read more... )

248 days till the wedding!

It looks like my thesis defense will be 9am on July 10. My committee needs the final version by July 3. Since I will be out of town starting June 30, I really need to get this sucker done by June 29. July 11 can't come soon enough ( Read more... )

On Monday, my youngest sister left for basic training in the Army. No matter how old I get, I always am surprised when people around me go and do adult things. Steph lived down the hall from me, and even though we didn't spend tons of time together, we usually did something together a couple times a week. Somehow my apartment feels a bit emptier ( Read more... )