2011: A New Year

Haven't written for a while, this definitely isn't for lack of life events.

I'm watching Little Shop of Horrors right now, I forgot how good the music is.

Teaching:

This quarter I'm teaching a lab on metallurgical techniques. This is the most fun lab of the series because the students get to sand cast something of their own design. Then they get to do different metal treatments like Jominy and carburization. The problem is that the administration in their infinite wisdom has shortened my lab section from four sessions to three. This means that I am very short on time and it's difficult to teach everything that needs to be taught in that amount of time. The students are really enjoying it though and I like teaching a lot.

Advisors:
I'm still looking for an advisor who has projects that I like and a group that I can get along with. I have meetings tomorrow with two different people, we'll see how they go.

Hillel Things:
The president of Hillel took me out for coffee, I guess they like to meet all of the new members of the Jewish community. I went to the Young Jewish Professionals Happy Hour which was in downtown Capitol Hill. They rented out a winery downtown and had free wine tastings and really good nosh. The wine was meh though.

Today I went to a L'Dor V'Dor (generation to generation) Bagel Brunch. Apparently the senior jewish community in seattle is really active, they take trips to hawaii, and alaska, and meet all the time. They wanted to meet with the younger generation here. So there was a free brunch at the hillel. Some very interesting people. Mom, what does Schmata mean? They all kept saying that and laughing. These were some pretty sassy old people. It was a very nice meeting.

SLO:
Inness and I took a surprise trip to SLO to see my friend Lisa's senior vocal recital. It was a lot of fun and reminded me how much I miss living in San Luis Obispo. I got to see a bunch of old friends, eat at all my favorite places, hear some beautiful music and talk nerdy with a bunch of engineers. I was introduced to "The Big Bang Theory" which is a TV show about a bunch of nerds. "A whirling vortex of entropy..." is my new favorite quote.



Other:
ARCHIE GOT HIS DIPLOMA! So proud.

Rachel is coming this weekend for a visit. I'm not sure what we'll do yet, but it should be fun.

I'm halfway through the 3rd week of p90x. It's hard but very good for me. I can't wait for summer up here, Seattle is supposed to have amazing summers. That's when people should come visit, hint hint, wink wink.