Entries from September 2006

September 23, 2006

nieces and nephews…

One thing I love about our monthly trip to visit Andrew’s brother (JD) and sister-in-law (Maria) is that I get a big dose of kids. Trinity is 3, Hunter is 6, and Brian just turned 13. I love playing with them even though I’m am constantly amazed at their video game addictions (3 and 6 [...]

September 20, 2006

academic year resolutions

Though I’m a couple of weeks late joining the academic year resolutions meme, I’m following the better late than never ideology.
1. My are prelim exams are in about 20 weeks. I have been debating whether or not to a. post all my notes on all my books here, b. keep electronic notes on my computer [...]

September 17, 2006

Random Updates

So it has been a rough month to say the least–more health scares, 2 car break-ins, and just the pure chaos of back to school-ness. Andy is teaching for the first time and has been assigned quite the workload. He’s teaching 2 intro to Physics sections and 1 physics lab and is also expected to [...]

September 15, 2006

beware spinach?

e. coli in spinach? i love how not a single news story that i’ve heard so far has mentioned that e. coli comes from animals. every story so far has just said “beware spinach! people are sick from spinach in 20 different states!” perhaps the american public would like to know about the relationship between [...]