Buyer signed loan docs yesterday.

Escrow officer expects loan to fund on Tuesday, and is shooting for a Wednesday close--3 months to the day after the original contract's closing date. *sigh* It's been a long, hard road.

I feel like I am playing musical moving boxes. That is, I unpack about half of the stuff in a box (the easy stuff); I unpack half of the stuff in another box (again, the easy stuff), and then I consolidate what's left into one box. So the stuff which is really hard to organize ends up being shuffled from one box to another...sometimes I wonder if ( Read more... )

Over the course of the last week I've been moving Stuff (anything that would fit in my car) to the new house, the place which Lehi calls house 23 and I am calling Dunharrow. But there was a huge amount of stuff that wouldn't fit in my car. Also, it was hard to take things over a bit at a time ( Read more... )

Signed the rental contract on Thursday; picked up keys to the house on Friday.

I've taken 5 carloads of stuff over to the house so far--but my apartment doesn't look any emptier. Instead, it still seems depressingly cluttered. Phooey.

I now have a professional presentation on my CV. In all honesty, this was probably the only thing keeping me from a STAR fellowship this last year...a publication would be better, but a presentation is SOMETHING ( Read more... )

I am feeling a bit short on books--ZD has basically refused to give me any books, after months of asking--so I went down to the library sale today ( Read more... )

I'm nervous...but have practiced a lot. *shiver ( Read more... )

Something I expected to learn about in my isotope geochemistry class: paleoclimatology

Something I did not expect to learn about in my isotope geochemistry class: the scientific basis for Groundhog Day

This class rocks!

It is noon. The outside temperature is -6F. If we're lucky, the high will pass zero degrees today.

Brrr.

I am so happy that classes have started again! By the end of this semester, I will have filled the classwork requirements for my degree (though there are still a couple of classes I wouldn't mind taking; my advisor wants me to take at least one more ( Read more... )