I'm finally going to do something in the lab! Yipee! I'm going to make myself some microspheres, just to see if I can do it. Of course, I might actually use them for something also eventually, but I want to get my hands dirty and actually make something tangible to show for all my time here. I pretty much read a hell of a lot of papers each day and think about what materials I'd like to use to make microspheres. But for now I'll settle for making microspheres of the wrong materials, just to learn the theory behind making them. So that will start on Sunday/Monday (since it requires some overnight stirring, and I can't be in on tomorrow or Saturday due to wedding planning things). Today I'm going to track down all the stuff I need (after I'm finished reading) to make sure I know where everything is by Sunday/Monday, or I can order things we do not have and then start my work at a later time.
Keegan was sent to Philadelphia last week to help out one of the project managers there, and I'm extremely proud of him! Now he's made himself a hot commodity at two of the company's offices, which provides him with a heightened degree of job security. He met with his boss's boss who told him something about wishing there were 72 of him [Keegan] that all get through the same amount of work as him. He's still been working longish hours, but it's definitely worth it to make good impressions and get the work done well. Thankfully the city of Raleigh approved the continuation of the work on the Lightner emergency response center, which is pretty much the huge project that is keeping the entire company afloat, and guarantees that Keegan will have plenty of work through the end of this year (which will hopefully help the company ride out the economic downturn).
I finally got all of my invitations out- AMAZING- and with stamps to spare! Now I'm going to have to send people all square cards so I can use up the remaining stamps, since they are $0.61 instead of $0.44. And we received our first wedding present yesterday, on the one month marker for the wedding!
On tap for the rest of this week/weekend on the wedding front:
-finish going through all childhood pictures to select some for a slideshow
-scan aforementioned pictures and get them to Sara so she can work on putting them into a nice presentation using all her creative craftiness (before she leaves for Switzerland next week!)
-get copies of baptismal stuff to the church secretary to confirm that I am indeed baptized so we can be set to get married there
-finalize the list of readings for the ceremony and turn that in to the church
-go to the Wake County register of deeds office to obtain our marriage license
-meet with the photographer to go through the flow of the ceremony and reception, as well as talk about who we want to take pictures with, which people don't like each other and won't be in the same pictures, etc
-give last check to photographer
-go to the mall with my bridesmaids to pick out their shoes
-take my sister to try on her dress
-buy a wedding gift for Amy and Matt (which is not related to my wedding, but is still wedding-relating and very exciting! Only 8 days until their wedding!)
And that's just this weekend. Other things that are not related to wedding things that I'm doing this weekend:
-hanging out with Sara before she leaves for the amazing Switzerland trip!
-having dinner with Keegan's family for his twin siblings' 16th birthday
-buying gifts for these siblings
-having dinner with Sarah Braman for her 23rd birthday
Well, it's back to the microsphere fabrication reading!
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