Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Monday, September 28, 2009
100 days of marriage
Keegan and I have been married for 100 days! They have been the best 100 days of my life, even better than the 3 years, 1 month, and 1 week preceding them :-D I'm so lucky!
Ahh, a trip down memory lane :-)
And just for fun...
Unfortunately, I am still studying. At least I'm (mostly) caught up with the reading for immunology, but there are some sections I'm not sure if we're supposed to read for the test. So I'm not reading them until I know if I have to read them. I should also reread the first couple chapters because I don't remember them well from the first few weeks of class... boo.
May 13, 2006
June 20, 2009
Ahh, a trip down memory lane :-)
And just for fun...
Baby Alice
Baby Keegan
Unfortunately, I am still studying. At least I'm (mostly) caught up with the reading for immunology, but there are some sections I'm not sure if we're supposed to read for the test. So I'm not reading them until I know if I have to read them. I should also reread the first couple chapters because I don't remember them well from the first few weeks of class... boo.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
How to avoid studying
Round one of year two's exams are getting ready to start so I've been trying to find ways to de-stress in preparation for them. I mainly do this by thinking about all of the things I'd rather be doing and all of the things I have to look forward to. This for me mainly includes different trips that Keegan and I are planning to take. And drinking a lot of chai tea...
We have a lot to look forward to in the coming year, and not just growing in our marriage together! We were initially planning to go up to the northeast between Christmas and New Year's to visit with some of his extended family, but I being the stealthy wife I am helped plan a surprise ski trip with Keegan's dad for him and Keegan right after New Year's. So that's part of Keegan's birthday and Christmas gift from his parents :-) Keegan will be going to Colorado in January! I've never been skiing but it looks like something I would like to try (but most likely be bad at).
For Easter we're planning to go back to Hilton Head with Keegan's family, at least for a few days. Easter I think overlaps with the younger kids' spring breaks, but I know Duke doesn't have any days off for Easter; I also don't know what my course schedule will be like, so maybe I won't have class on some days.
I'm hoping that sometime in May/June/July I'll be able to take that train trip with my grandparents, to see all of those beautiful places and also to spend some more quality time with them. But I'll need to talk over with Monty to figure out if it will be okay for me to be gone that long. I don't think he'll mind, but I want to make sure I'm at a good break point when I go and that I achieve enough before I leave to really enjoy the trip and not worry about what I could be doing in lab :-)
One of Keegan's good friends is getting married on June 19 in the Outer Banks, so we'll be going there too! And then we'll probably be going up north for the July 4th picnic with his dad's side of the family. Our plan was also to visit Newport, RI and then drive up the coast to Maine to visit with Keegan's cousin and her husband for our anniversary during this same time frame (since we'd already be in the area for the picnic), but we may not do that because I would feel really bad taking a two week trip then missing another half week of work so close together. We could always take that trip later in the year and they would be more spread out and less buggy (I hear Maine has a lot of bugs in the summer) but I'd also like to avoid the 6 feet of snow they get in the winter...
I'll probably be going to BMES next year, which I think is in Texas, so there's yet another place to go. And I've never been to Texas!
See, I really like to avoid studying by planning all the other things I could be doing... but I also can't look at these complex diagrams for more then 2.5 hours before I start to crack and my back hurts.
New NCIS tonight!!!! EEEEE! My goal is to know enough that I don't feel guilty watching it! Or that I feel less guilty watching it anyway :-) I didn't feel bad at all watching House last night because I was on campus from 7:30a.m. to 9p.m. and I got a lot done with studying. And then I think Grey's Anatomy starts Thursday (which has regrettably started to suck) and Desperate Housewives starts on Sunday. Ahh, premiere season!
We have a lot to look forward to in the coming year, and not just growing in our marriage together! We were initially planning to go up to the northeast between Christmas and New Year's to visit with some of his extended family, but I being the stealthy wife I am helped plan a surprise ski trip with Keegan's dad for him and Keegan right after New Year's. So that's part of Keegan's birthday and Christmas gift from his parents :-) Keegan will be going to Colorado in January! I've never been skiing but it looks like something I would like to try (but most likely be bad at).
For Easter we're planning to go back to Hilton Head with Keegan's family, at least for a few days. Easter I think overlaps with the younger kids' spring breaks, but I know Duke doesn't have any days off for Easter; I also don't know what my course schedule will be like, so maybe I won't have class on some days.
I'm hoping that sometime in May/June/July I'll be able to take that train trip with my grandparents, to see all of those beautiful places and also to spend some more quality time with them. But I'll need to talk over with Monty to figure out if it will be okay for me to be gone that long. I don't think he'll mind, but I want to make sure I'm at a good break point when I go and that I achieve enough before I leave to really enjoy the trip and not worry about what I could be doing in lab :-)
One of Keegan's good friends is getting married on June 19 in the Outer Banks, so we'll be going there too! And then we'll probably be going up north for the July 4th picnic with his dad's side of the family. Our plan was also to visit Newport, RI and then drive up the coast to Maine to visit with Keegan's cousin and her husband for our anniversary during this same time frame (since we'd already be in the area for the picnic), but we may not do that because I would feel really bad taking a two week trip then missing another half week of work so close together. We could always take that trip later in the year and they would be more spread out and less buggy (I hear Maine has a lot of bugs in the summer) but I'd also like to avoid the 6 feet of snow they get in the winter...
I'll probably be going to BMES next year, which I think is in Texas, so there's yet another place to go. And I've never been to Texas!
See, I really like to avoid studying by planning all the other things I could be doing... but I also can't look at these complex diagrams for more then 2.5 hours before I start to crack and my back hurts.
New NCIS tonight!!!! EEEEE! My goal is to know enough that I don't feel guilty watching it! Or that I feel less guilty watching it anyway :-) I didn't feel bad at all watching House last night because I was on campus from 7:30a.m. to 9p.m. and I got a lot done with studying. And then I think Grey's Anatomy starts Thursday (which has regrettably started to suck) and Desperate Housewives starts on Sunday. Ahh, premiere season!
Monday, September 14, 2009
VFIFX
I can already tell I'm going to be an obsessive fund-checker. I didn't think I'd ever be "that" person, but I so am. It was up 0.44% today- I made $22!
Today I was in lab for 12 hours. 6:55a.m. to 6:45p.m. I desperately needed to get work done and Keegan was wonderful enough to drop me off and pick me up on his way to and from work; that way I wasn't able to just leave at 4, I was forced to be productive. And I really was. I did this reading for my discussion group in immunology, I did my biology homework, I made a lot of progress on my presentation for lab meeting and I was able to talk to Monty about my paper organization. I was trying so hard to figure out his comments on rearrangement and I was wasting all this time formatting instead of improving the content.
Today I was in lab for 12 hours. 6:55a.m. to 6:45p.m. I desperately needed to get work done and Keegan was wonderful enough to drop me off and pick me up on his way to and from work; that way I wasn't able to just leave at 4, I was forced to be productive. And I really was. I did this reading for my discussion group in immunology, I did my biology homework, I made a lot of progress on my presentation for lab meeting and I was able to talk to Monty about my paper organization. I was trying so hard to figure out his comments on rearrangement and I was wasting all this time formatting instead of improving the content.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Really? It's September 12th?
This year has really flown by and it's going by even faster now that classes have started up. It's already been 3 weeks of class- somehow I feel like I've barely started classes and that I've been in classes forever all at the same time. I'm enjoying them so far, but it's a lot of somewhat tedious reading. My first round of exams starts on September 24, so we'll see how much I like classes then.
In sad news my aunt had a massive heart attack this week and she is recovering poorly. She had an aneurysm that was repaired in early August, but shortly after the surgery she began having kidney failure and was in and out of the hospital. She was home for about a week then she had this heart attack and was back in the hospital. She also has pneumonia with significant fluid buildup in her lungs, requiring a ventilator. She is also back on dialysis for kidney failure. They're not sure what caused the heart attack but her other problems are unlikely to resolve themselves without treatment for her heart problems. She is still in the critical care unit and can only have 2 visitors at a time and they must wear masks. I hope she is able to recover enough to come home even though she may always require dialysis if her kidneys do not pick up their functioning soon. She has been a very heavy smoker and drinker, so I hope her and my uncle realize how these behaviors absolutely CANNOT continue.
This weekend is the graduate student campout for season basketball tickets but I'm not participating because I want to be able to get to the hospital immediately if necessary and also because I have a lot of lab work this week. I'm giving Monty another draft of my paper on Tuesday and I'm presenting at lab meeting on Thursday; both of these things require a lot of time this weekend that I just wouldn't have at campout. So I need to get back to work on those things shortly.
And also (at this moment) UNC is losing their football game and Duke is actually winning! I know this may not last, but it's nice for now :-)
In sad news my aunt had a massive heart attack this week and she is recovering poorly. She had an aneurysm that was repaired in early August, but shortly after the surgery she began having kidney failure and was in and out of the hospital. She was home for about a week then she had this heart attack and was back in the hospital. She also has pneumonia with significant fluid buildup in her lungs, requiring a ventilator. She is also back on dialysis for kidney failure. They're not sure what caused the heart attack but her other problems are unlikely to resolve themselves without treatment for her heart problems. She is still in the critical care unit and can only have 2 visitors at a time and they must wear masks. I hope she is able to recover enough to come home even though she may always require dialysis if her kidneys do not pick up their functioning soon. She has been a very heavy smoker and drinker, so I hope her and my uncle realize how these behaviors absolutely CANNOT continue.
This weekend is the graduate student campout for season basketball tickets but I'm not participating because I want to be able to get to the hospital immediately if necessary and also because I have a lot of lab work this week. I'm giving Monty another draft of my paper on Tuesday and I'm presenting at lab meeting on Thursday; both of these things require a lot of time this weekend that I just wouldn't have at campout. So I need to get back to work on those things shortly.
And also (at this moment) UNC is losing their football game and Duke is actually winning! I know this may not last, but it's nice for now :-)
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