The amazing exponential workload

So it's actually been one month since my last post, and I'm killing a little bit of time before going to a gym class with Emily, so I thought I'd post a short something.

I bought my wedding dress! Last weekend with Cait, and it's beautiful and unique and I'm so happy (but I can't go in to more detail because Keegan reads this blog!) to have found it. It was also "last season" and off-the-rack, which made it about 60% off and in my price range, so that was pretty exciting. As if the dress wasn't "me" enough, the fact that it was super on sale definitely makes it me :o)

I guess the last big things to tackle on that front are getting the bridesmaid dresses in order, picking a menu for our reception, and picking flowers. I hope to get all of those things done before Christmas, but I've got vague ideas for each of them. Then over the break and into January and February I can get smaller things finished, like ordering invitations and making a hair appointment or whatever. I'm sure there are many other things I'm forgetting though...

On the school front I'm slowly being squashed by my workload. The end of the semester is approaching, so that means we've reached the project season. I'm working in a group to develop a method to engineer nerves and then writing an R21 grant proposal on that, I'm working on my own to present and write a paper about unnatural amino acid incorporation into proteins and the genetic code, I'm writing an individual R21 proposal on an unrelated topic for my biomaterials class, and I'm trying to work on the NSF Fellowship application as well. That's on top of the usual load of math homework, biomaterials readings, tissue engineering homeworks, biomolecular engineering homeworks, and monster lab reports. I get so excited when I realize the end of the semester is approaching, then I remember all this stuff has to get crammed in to all that time somehow :-o

I guess there's not too much new to report... just doing school work and that's about it. With some minimal wedding things thrown in there too. I supposedly have a midterm in my applied math for engineers class, but he hasn't posted it yet, even though he was going to about 2 weeks ago. Then he decided he'd post it Wednesday... well, it's Thursday late afternoon and still no midterm. I hope he just waits until tomorrow to post it so that way I can have a night where I just have to do a whole crapload of reading instead of working on homeworks and getting up at 5a.m. And then I can go running in the morning :o) I've only been twice this week and I like to go every day. That's my time so I don't go insane... but somehow I'm still going insane, little by little. But at least I'm getting my exercise. And the dress I bought fit me almost perfectly, it just needs to be taken in a little, so that's my incentive to stay the same weight to I won't have to do major alterations.

Anyway, it's time for the weight-lifting fitness class that I forgot the name of, so I guess I should pack up my stuff :o)