Well, I'm off and running with the wedding plans. It sounds a little crazy to be planning now, but once school starts, I'll be really busy with my classes. This fall I will be taking:
Biomedical Materials
Introduction to Biomolecular Engineering (a lab and lecture)
Tissue Engineering
Applied Mathematics
BME seminar
That's quite a full course-load, but I'm going to finish ASAP. None of this 6 year Ph.D. nonsense.
So Keegan and I will be getting married June 20, 2009 at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Raleigh. This is the church his family belongs to, and I think it's really pretty. We'll be having a simple ceremony, since I'm not Catholic and no one in my family is Catholic, I'm not having a wedding that excludes my family. Before the wedding, we have a Marriage Prep Forum we need to attend; it's an all-day event, but it's supposed to help us prepare for marriage (as the name implies) and I hope it is useful. We will also be meeting with his priest a few times, and I might require extra meetings with him because I'm not Catholic and I'm not going to convert. I've also done some investigation into their hall to rent for the reception, but the woman in charge of scheduling those is on vacation until Monday, so I'll call back then. Now that we've got a date set, I guess I need to start tackling all the other things that go into a wedding... eep!
Right now I'm in the process of packing everything I own to prepare for my move to Durham. My brother and I are preparing to trade bedrooms while my sister is away at band camp. It's sneaky, but she'll throw a fit when she doesn't get my room. My room is the biggest of the non-master bedrooms, and my sister is older than my brother; however, my brother's bedroom has two doors that connect it to the bonus room and the hallway and bathroom where the rest of the bedrooms are, so everyone walks through it at all hours of the day. It's sort of like another hallway, and I think he deserves a room with one door. Plus if Kristin takes my room, then Hunter moves to hers and I move to his and that seems like one more move than is necessary. And she's going to college in 2 years anyway.
That's all for now; I've got more packing to do before I go to work! (Still working at Target until next Wednesday... gotta earn all the money I can before I move and start school!)
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The BIG question
Hey everyone!
Well, in case you didn't know, Keegan and I are getting married! Someday in the future at least, but we're engaged now. We haven't really worked out the wedding day details, but when we've figured them all out, I'll be sure to post more info and I'll probably be making one of those "theknot" websites. It's so exciting! A little daunting too... the prospect of planning and paying for a wedding is a little stressful and I haven't even started yet! I suppose the whole Ph.D. thing is lingering there too... but at least for the first year I shouldn't have too much research going on yet- more planning time! We're thinking possibly some time next summer for a wedding; that sounds really soon, but seeing as how I will have a possibly rigid research project schedule in my later years at school, it might be best to get married before all that kicks in.
That's about all for now, as if there could be any more exciting news! I think that's enough big news for me for one day.
:o)
Well, in case you didn't know, Keegan and I are getting married! Someday in the future at least, but we're engaged now. We haven't really worked out the wedding day details, but when we've figured them all out, I'll be sure to post more info and I'll probably be making one of those "theknot" websites. It's so exciting! A little daunting too... the prospect of planning and paying for a wedding is a little stressful and I haven't even started yet! I suppose the whole Ph.D. thing is lingering there too... but at least for the first year I shouldn't have too much research going on yet- more planning time! We're thinking possibly some time next summer for a wedding; that sounds really soon, but seeing as how I will have a possibly rigid research project schedule in my later years at school, it might be best to get married before all that kicks in.
That's about all for now, as if there could be any more exciting news! I think that's enough big news for me for one day.
:o)
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Brochufest 2008
I'm back from up north and settled into where I'm house sitting until July 15. I also have a townhouse lined up for the next year- I move in on August 9, yipee! I'm really looking forward to having a place of my own that is not shared with my family, as much as I love them. This house sitting gig is a test run for living on my own I suppose.
The trip up north was really fun and I enjoyed meeting more of Keegan's relatives- they're hilarious and when you get a big group together, it's a lot of fun. Keegan, his dad, and I all went up to the reunion in Vermont while the rest of his family stayed with relatives on his mom's side of the family. At the picnic I met about 100 people (at least! look for pictures on Facebook soon!) from Mr. Brochu's side of the family and the reunion was held up on a mountain farm, so the views were really amazing.
I got to check Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont off of my "states to visit" list; that gives me a total of 9 new states for 2008 (so far!).
I'm meeting with Monty (my Ph.D. adviser) next week so I'll be signing up for my classes soon after that! I'll let everyone know how intimidating they sound once I'm enrolled. He also sent me a paper to review so we can discuss it at our meeting- goody, goody, homework! Nah, it's not too bad :-) Gotta get used to how my life is going to be from now on!
The trip up north was really fun and I enjoyed meeting more of Keegan's relatives- they're hilarious and when you get a big group together, it's a lot of fun. Keegan, his dad, and I all went up to the reunion in Vermont while the rest of his family stayed with relatives on his mom's side of the family. At the picnic I met about 100 people (at least! look for pictures on Facebook soon!) from Mr. Brochu's side of the family and the reunion was held up on a mountain farm, so the views were really amazing.
I got to check Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont off of my "states to visit" list; that gives me a total of 9 new states for 2008 (so far!).
I'm meeting with Monty (my Ph.D. adviser) next week so I'll be signing up for my classes soon after that! I'll let everyone know how intimidating they sound once I'm enrolled. He also sent me a paper to review so we can discuss it at our meeting- goody, goody, homework! Nah, it's not too bad :-) Gotta get used to how my life is going to be from now on!
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