1 post tagged “spring break”

Alrighty, I figured I would give the blogging thing a shot.  I put a couple of blog posts over on my myspace page, but I despise myspace, so I am pretty much just going to lock that account down so that only the people I already have as friends will have access, and everyone else, primarily nosy potential employers, can go screw themselves.  Besides, these vox blogs are MUCH more stylish than the crap over on myspace, those pages either make me sea sick, or they give me a splitting headache, so I think this will work out a lot better.

So, on to what is happening with me.  I got antsy today and decided to call and harass all the grad schools to which I applied.  I was only able to get a hold of one person who seemed to know anything, and they were vague at best.  Boise State said that my file was "complete" whatever the hell that means, but that they were still working on others, and the likelihood was that that would take a couple of more weeks.  At all the other schools I just got secretaries that didn't know anything who just forwarded me on to other people's voicemails.  So maybe I will hear something from the people that I left messages with, but who knows, I am sure they get a couple of those calls a day an probably don't bother responding.

Still cracking away at my thesis.  I got some of my thin sections back at the end of last week, but they proved to be the least interesting, so I am still waiting for the cool stuff.  In the mean time I am still working on the writing the geologic setting for the my thesis.  I still have a lot of reading I need to do be able to beef it up the way I want, but Julie told me I had a great start, so I guess that is good.  I have already expand the first 9 lines I wrote into out about 40, so if I can continue at that rate I shouldn't have any problems making 5 pages out of it.

I went out and hit some terracaches with Jon and Scott on Sunday.  I woke up to it raining, 33 deg., and windy, so what better than to go out hiking.  We were supposed to have a big group of people, but I am sure they said "screw this" when they saw the weather.  We cut out plans short, and just did a little 3 mile loop, we had been considering doing something around 7-8 miles the weather was pretty nasty in that area.

Starting to get my spring break trip planned out.  Right now the full length version is 8 states, 9 days, and 3400 miles.  But I am betting I will run out of time and end up having to haul ass a thousand miles home, but that is par for the course.  If I end going to east for grad school this will be my last chance to take a western road trip for a while, so I want to knock out Arches, Canyonlands, and Grand Canyon National Parks on this trip.

Anyway, I have to do a few things to get ready for my Metamorphic Terrane Analysis class, so I guess I had better do that.  Stay tuned . . .