It’s been a busy latter half of the year, as many of you can probably tell by my almost complete lack of posting on our blog. I thought it might be wise to post an update before I go back to my draft posts from January and March and try to actually get them done.
I just finished two great classes this past week for the fall, and am now half way to my dissertation! The classes were:
Yes, this went back on my proclamation from the spring that I would never take two again. Well, this time I really mean it.
We’ve traveled a lot this fall considering our schedules. We’ve been to Long Island for a wedding, Knox NY (outside Albany) to my grandparents’ for Thanksgiving, and of course our August trip to Chile from which we need to finish posting pictures. I’ve also been to Blacksburg VA to Virginia Tech for a department meeting, as well as to Rome NY and of course Cherry Hill NJ numerous times for work.
We’ve also seen numerous friends and family, especially at Patrick (my brother) and Kris’ wedding weekend, Allegra’s parents’ visit, and Ben and Marissa’s wonderful visit a few weekends ago. As usual, their much more artful blog post is a marvel and should definitely be viewed. And I’ve had friends from school move into the area who I owe a visit – they’ve been here about six months, are three miles away or so, and I still haven’t seen them! Not good!
We are still working on moving our photo blog over to the new engine at: http://ajmatt.com/pictures. Hopefully we can get that done in the next couple of weeks, but until then, don’t forget to check it out!
In more mundane news, last weekend we had our red-shouldered hawk visit again. We watched while it shredded and ate a small bird it had apparently caught. We decided it was a bit too gruesome to rate taking pictures, but I’m sure you all can imagine – feathers everywhere!
If you are looking for a personalized (crazy) mix of news, science, technology, military topics, fun items, flash games, and other “stuff”, be sure to keep up on my Google Reader shared items feed. It’s a little easier for me to keep up with during the school year, and I tend to add notes to many of the posts. I’ve been on LinkedIn a long time, as many of you know, and I’ve just succumbed to peer pressure and signed up for Facebook – find and befriend me!
Other than that, I plan on taking full advantage of this wonderfully long holiday by reading, relaxing, and nursery building!
Congratulations! Loved your update.