Welcome to the new site!!

Hi everyone!! Well I told most of you that I would eventually get my butt moving and post a blog on a new, more secure/hidden, site. And I finally did it!! Aren't you proud of me?? More like you're thinking... it's about freaking time!! As Vicki said, just because I'm a doctor doesn't mean that I get to slack off with the blogging! But slack I have... so now I'm back. I'm not making any great promises of how often I'm going to write... but hopefully with my lighter summer schedule I will be a bit more prolific. So those of you who knew where my former blog was have probably noticed that I deleted it off of there. I figured that since I'm going to be a teacher, I didn't need my students reading my rants about lab, etc. Thus the reason that you will never see any personal information (such as my name, etc.) on here and I ask that any of you posting comments keep my name off of them. Otherwise, I might have to delete comments... and that wouldn't be fun!!

So let's see... the excitement in my life. So I bought a townhouse last week. Let me see if I can put a couple pictures in here...



So that is obviously a picture of the outside of the house... the next are pictures of the kitchen (that I love) and the living room.




So that's the house (well, a few rooms of it!)... once Mark and I move in and get settled we will certainly have a housewarming party of some sort! You know me and parties... and I haven't had one in a long time... nor have I had space to have one! So I'm excited... assuming that no more problems occur over drapes and other stupid things (a story in and of itself that I won't delve into right now). I really hope that I don't have to hear from my lawyer anytime in the near future... one can hope.

So what else? I have 9 more days of lab, counting today. YAY! I really don't know what to do these final days. I had a couple experiments to do, but I got both of them to work (finally!) last week... so yeah... so much for that! Now I guess I'll just sit here and blog since no one has anything else for me to do!!

I just got back from a lovely weekend in Phoenix with Mark. His company flew me out there for the weekend. We went to the Grand Canyon and have beautiful pictures of the canyon... but Mark has them. He claims that I'm going to get a CD of the pictures that I'll be able to have the next time I see him... I hope this isn't equal to his claims of scanning pictures for Scott... otherwise, Lord knows when I'll get those pics!! :) (Sorry, dear... I had to say it!) What else? We also saw The DaVinci Code, which was great. And I know it was a good movie because we just missed an earlier showing and had to go to a late showing. And I was dead tired and Mark had had to wake me up to even get me to the show. And I NEVER had a problem staying awake through the movie... so it obviously kept my attention and interest. Granted, I definitely loved the book and recommend it... but if a movie will get people to read, then I'm okay with that!! Otherwise, we were big bums and stayed around the pool and ate. It was great!! The only sucky part was my plane flights to and from Phoenix... stupid Chicago weather!! And that is my comment.

I wish I had something interesting to say, but I really don't. This is kind of a dud for my first blog... sorry kids! I promise to get better. :)

My big excitement for the week is to work on my syllabi for my summer classes. Nothing big needs to be changed... but I do want to switch around the order of a few lectures. I really don't like the way that the textbook is set up, so now that I've gone through it once, I know how I want to organize things. I think it will flow much better that way. I have to run to school and see if there's any information on my lab. Now you tell me if you think this is weird... so I e-mailed the lab coordinator (whose entire full-time job is setting up and coordinating labs) and asked her if the summer schedule was ready to go. She said no, but that if I wanted to do it, that would be fine. I just sat there reading her note and was like... now wait a minute... it's not like it's hard to set up the schedule... but seriously... that's her ONLY job!! And yet she's trying to pawn it off on me?! I was going to do it if I had been on the ball sooner... but I wasn't (home buying got in the way) so I'm going to have to run to school now to see if she's done it. Otherwise, I'll do it myself tonight. Joy of joys. Oh well... just interesting. Things that make me go hmmm...

Oh! Speaking of which... Kelly sent me this link that I just found hilarious... mostly because it brought back memories of songs and bad dances. So I highly recommend it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

It's a long video... but it goes fast... and it's great for a laugh if you're having a long, bad day.

Anyway, I should probably do something productive since I AM at work... HAHA. I am going to start poking around this site and figuring out all of the nifty things I can do that I don't know about!! Hopefully my blogs will get more interesting as time goes on...

I hope you are all having wonderful days... don't work too hard!! :)