I'm a real graduate student now!

I have the pull-ups theme song running through my head right now: Mommy, wow! I'm a big girl now!

I made my first poster today! That makes me an offical graduate student. I've also been working out what my various goals are for this summer and what topics I want in my thesis! Patience, I'm making lists! Hopefully these lists keep me focused. Next task is to design my experiments for the summer...

Its amazing not taking any classes. I've already read through a bunch of papers and made a poster and I've only been back at school for two days.

I was back in Lafayette for two weeks. My cousin Karen got married and I GOT TO PET A SHARK (!!!!!) at the indy zoo with beth and scott. It was cool. Sadly for Scott we saw no copulations. I also got to nerd-out with Kris over a lunch break (yay science geeks!) and have beth, scott, kris and em over for dinner complete with a bananna cream pie (which is one of my favorite pies!). The wedding was fun (Karen and Allen are awesome!): many gin and tonics were consumed, my toast went well, and my brother's girlfriend introduced marvelous concoction of southern comfort and doctor pepper to my family. Protests were made, but ultimately my dad and uncles seemed to like it.

Oh and I also bailed hay.

That's my life.

Next week I get to go backpacking! Yippee! Its been at least two years since I have done this. Craziness...