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Hello everybody! Yes, I know it's been nearly 2 weeks since I last updated, and those 2 weeks have gone by very fast. It took a few days to get acclimated to working again and then I started taking ballet class one night a week and hanging out with the boys almost every other night of the week. It's really fun to be dancing again, even though my legs are in shock from not doing ballet for 14 years! But, it's coming back faster than I expected, and that's good news! The allergies are also a little better, now that a lot of the trees have bloomed.... not so much pollen in the air now, plus it's been raining off and on for the past two weeks. We had an awesome thunderstorm last night while the boys were over for a barbecue dinner at our place. Of course, Joe insisted that the storm was going to 'just miss us,' but instead it started raining and he got soaking wet while trying to salvage the meat and veggies. And thanks to the violent winds, all of the soot from the grill blew into the kitchen and turned my newly-Cinderella-style-cleaned kitchen floor into a mud pit. So Joe cleaned it up with the boys while enjoying a few beers while I was in the living room preparing my slides for the Progress Report I gave to the department this morning. It went well, other than two of the professors (of course the microbiologists!) interrupted me and asked me to explain some MRI data of my advisor's that I inserted. It was supposed to to help explain why I'm doing my project and not turn into a focal point, but at least I now know that I have to work on explaining it better.
So now, I'm taking my time in the lab and can't wait for Jess and Tom's arrival on Thursday. It'll be so fun to have them around all weekend!