(Potentially) Final Four-bound!

I have tickets to the Final Four and the National Championship!! Of course, this assumes that Duke makes it to the Final Four... but I'm optimistic! It's nice to have something mostly spontaneous to do :-) It'll be nice to spend more time with the BMEers here too. And I'll get to go to Indiana! And perhaps Kentucky, depending on the driving route. Two more states down! And even if Duke loses this weekend (sad) I'm still going to Hilton Head for Easter, which was my original plan and is a damn fine consolation prize :-D

In other news, my review paper is finished! We're sending it to reviewers, then we'll submit it for publication. YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. I've also found a method that I want to attempt for encapsulation that looks promising... but I guess I won't know if it actually is promising for awhile. I'm presenting at a poster symposium thing on April 8, so that will be a nice practice run for Society for Biomaterials. Less than one month until Seattle! Spring is amazing. So begins the weeks of travel. High Point, Hilton Head/Indianapolis, Wilmington, and Seattle all in less than a month! Which reminds me -- I need to make a cheesecake tonight for my granddaddy's birthday. I won't have time to make it tomorrow because I'll be going out with the group of recruits and it needs to set.

Poor Keegan has been working a lot of overtime (I guess it's not really overtime since he's not paid for it... so just working a lot) and he probably won't be home until pretty late tonight. I guess that will give me plenty of time to take over the kitchen with cheesecake-related items. But I still miss seeing him for dinner :-( He told me that one of his coworkers was let go this morning, one of the engineers this time. As there are only 8 engineers (now 7) at the Raleigh office, this is a big deal. Today is their "town hall" meeting, so I'm guessing he'll have more info for me the next time I talk to him.

Well, I'm going hunting around the lab for materials that I need to use this new technique to see what I need to order. Then seminar. Then fitness room! Then cheesecake preparation, mmmm.