So 2 or 3 weeks ago Dallin and I were both extremely busy and a bit stressed trying to finish up the semester and get ready for our finals. Dallin said that we were in a sprint to the finish but I told him I thought it was more like a death march. I guess it's a matter of perspective, but I don't think it can be called a sprint. I mean who sprints for 3 weeks straight? We'll Dallin does like to run so maybe that is the difference. In any case, we survived!! YAY!
So as I mentioned before, I was a tad bit busy this last month and the death march of the last month of school kept me from doing things like updating our blog. But now I am free, more or less, and actually have time to write, so this is might be kinda long :)
Dallin got an internship with the International Trade Commission doing "legal stuff" (that's a direct quote, he's so descriptive). We are pretty excited because it pays for part of the summer and is awesome experience! The last few people to intern here have gone on to get really good jobs. He might even be able to keep working there into the school year. This also means that we are still free agents next summer, we are hoping to be able to get internships out west next summer so we can be closer to family!
Dallin also went to the tea party rally in DC with a friend from institute to listen to Ron Paul talk (I stayed in my office and worked). He said it was pretty interesting and we had a good chat with an older couple about politics and stuff on the metro ride home, they had come all the way down from northern New York to go to the rally. He also went to listen to Ron Paul talk, again, Thursday night (again I stayed home and studied). He really liked it, and is happy that we are near DC right now and he can be involved in politics so easily.
I have been working my tail off trying to finish my research for the semester as well as do all my class assignments. I now know quite a bit about blood flow in arteries and about the design of stents. It's pretty interesting. I can also design a zero-net energy house! So if anyone wants to make their house more energy efficient, just talk to me, I have some pretty good ideas. I made a poster for our college's research and development showcase about my research I've been doing. I then stood in front of it for a whole day defending it to judges and answering questions. The showcase was a contest and I won 3rd place out of about 60 entries! It was pretty exciting.
In other news, we planted some new plants this week. We found tomato seed in target's dollar section and are hoping that by next year we will have some tomatoes growing. We also bought a sweet pepper plant and some flowers. Hopefully I'll be able to keep them alive, I have bad luck with flowers.
Oh, and we've been married for two years!! I know hard to believe but we actually have! We didn't do anything exciting because it fell right smack in the middle of finals and if you haven't figured it out yet we were both pretty busy. We are going to go down to Williamsburg some time this week though to celebrate!
I know I left somethin out so if I remember what it is I'll put it up later, I also have some pictures, but I'm not sure where they are right now so I might put those up later as well.
