It's friggin cold out. i felt silly for wearing sweater sets all week in the heat, so i'm actually in a t-shirt today and it's like 50 degrees....what the heck. (ok fine, exagguration aside it's really 68 degrees.....seriously! freaking cold!!!). I miss texas....where did it go!?!

I defended and it was super. i passed. so if i make the changes they suggested and i pass my two classes i'm in, i'm official! So all my friends and i celebrated at margarita rocks and got a pitcher of margaritas, and it was way cool cuz it was all my friends....and it's a wed night. i love a&m. it rocks. then linds and i hung out in the hot tub drinking wine and watching dodge ball (funny dumb movie), then we got rained out and ran into the house and sampson as normal, was crazy. normal. today was super. thanks for asking.

Ok so i'm happy about the room. it's been a while since i updated. yea it's a pain but i have lots of windows, can see the whole campus, and it turns out most of my fluids class is in the room with me, so homework is much easier.

anyway....the 'hurricane' was a good excuse to go home to san antonio this weekend. had fun with manda - sorry i missed you kim.

today is my defense. actually it's in 3 hours and 15 minutes. i need to do a bit of work still, but i think i feel good. i'm already planning the victory party tonight....i'm kinda freaking myself out now. i thought xanga'ing would be good to calm me down. oops apparently not. luckily after today all i need to do is study for monday's math test, create an ifc document for aggiesat, put the presentation together for the air force by next monday, oh yea and do all the corrections to my thesis. ok not helping. today all i have to do is put my makeup on, change 2 graphs on my power point...print out my thesis (84 pgs) and my notes for the presentation. very do-able. i do feel better (i'll feel even better tonight when i'm at margarita rocks!) dangit...did the count your chickens before they hatch thing again. ok leaving. bye!

Dude, so I have this awesome office on the 6th floor of my building. Anytime I need to talk to a prof, I go up 1 flight and get everything done. I used to have a window but they moved me to a different room, but no matter because now (without a window) I work...a lot! I get so much done, which is so not like me!

Anywho, I found out today (when someone was moving his stuff in) that I'm kicked out to a building across teh street. I don't really want to complain because things are going really well for me, but it just seems oddly typical that I should move just when I'm being crazy productive. My new office will be huge, but I'm sharing it with a lot of other people. It's not the space I'm concerned about - it's that I'm soooo easily distracted. Windows/other people working/any noises and I don't work. Plus it's going to take a lot more time to talk to prof's since i have to go from teh 10th floor, walk across teh street, and back up. Grrr.

Ok I'm done. :)

Remember this profile pic?? It's sooo cute! I realized my last pic might not have been good information to share on the internet, even though it's available if you type my name in the yellowpags.

anytawhooo - i'm watching man of the house. it's not bad. (shout out to all my ut girls....) there's only been 2 negative mentions of the aggies (so far)). there was a mention of eagle pass. hehe. oh, just a warning, soon i will be an official aggie. I defend my thesis (which is entirely written) in 2 weeks, then i'll be graduated this semester....so i'll be an actual aggie. for real...like i think i'll order a ring and everything! oh and in upcoming news, i think i may be dating an aggie. (ok that's a week from now....it's just flirting currently)

um in other news...jimmy fallon's best of sienl is awesome!

 

ps my hot tub is working great - i've even rigged speakers and watch movies sometimes out there. manda...kim....now is definately the time to come (and by now I mean 2 weeks from now, after i'm done with my defense...29th on).

Sooooo....I've been working on my thesis all week (But quite literally for every waking hour of the weekend). For all intents and purposes, it's due mon. AHH! then i have to turn it into powerpoint slides the following weekend....then i have to present it. again, AHHH!

I have this great feeling of self accomplishment...making up for all the time i had fun during the summer (bad grad student...bad!). however, the lack of feeling in my legs and butt are kinda outweighing the good feeling.

Here's some fun stats. Last week (aug 28-sep 3) I worked on aggiesat 24 hours and thesis 1 hour. This week (sep 4-10) I worked on aggiesat 32 hours and thesis 30 hours (it's past midnight...everything i do tonight counts for next week now). i didn't realize it was possible to work that much and still get all the necessary sleep time in (my tv and social life have really suffered this week).

linds has been great though - she comes and visits and brings me food, b/c it's funny - once i'm in my office, i don't want to leave it...too productive, so i eat before i come to the office, and then again whenever linds brings me food - time just passes without me knowing it. today lunch was at 9pm. i'm still waiting on dinner :) thank goodness linds is here or else i think i'd still be waiting on lunch!

anywho, must get back to work..i can kinda feel my butt again.

look it's my house! from space! (cuz i'm interested in that again now) :)

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2901+Sweet+Gum+dr,+Bryan,+TX+77803&ll=30.683319,-96.349915&spn=0.004313,0.007308&t=h&hl=en

So I know I haven't written in a while. sorry. This last week (the first week of classes) has been crazy! Big news: I am no longer doing the grad work coding software like I have been for the last year. I am now the PM - program manager for the AggieSat1 for the AFRL (air force research lab) NanoSat4 competition. Cool, huh? I'm crazy busy recruiting people and getting caught up. I was working on it, but took 2 months off to write my thesis and big mistake there. I am totally lost now! I have a bunch of people working under me now, though, like 60-80 or so....

i'm way excited but it's kinda wierd. when the head of the dept asked me and i said yes, she goes 'ok i'll inform the air force' - doesn't that sound like something from a movie, not real life!? The best part is that i actually enjoy this stuff - design, managing, paperwork. I might actually stick around for more of grad school then i thought....cuz i'm getting paid for this! ok that's all, gotta go back to working.

oh other big news: my hot tub is up and running. mom and dad came to visit this weekend and we tested it out - primo. you should come visit and see too!

bottom line: my life is now acronyms...and i can only talk to people about work with certain citizenships. yea!