What's New In My Universe
Welcome to my pseudo-blog. "Blog" because this is where I'll post comments, rants and updates to the website, but "pseudo" because it's not *really* a blog (namely, I update everything by hand, without using any blogging software, and there's no comments section). The archives, which can be accessed from the Navigation Bar on the left, are grouped into academic time periods: Spring, Summer, Fall. Notice how I've cleverly found a way to entirely avoid the word "Winter" in here, bwa ha ha ha!!!
Are you wondering why this pseudo-blog is called 'Update Archive'? Well, you see, long ago when "Emily's Universe" was but a wee baby (Version 1.0), I kept all my blog-like comments and rants on the main page of the website. This eventually resulted in a very long and cluttered main page, so I created an additional page to 'archive' all those old 'updates', and as I am lacking in the imagination department, I ended up calling it "Update Archive". And now you know :-)
Friday, 27 March 2009
Eleven Months
11:30pm EDT
There are now exactly eleven months left until our wedding! John and I have finally decided on a wedding date, and it will be on Saturday, 27 February 2010. And we'll be getting married at the Arecibo Observatory! Isn't that awesome? We haven't decided on a place for the reception yet, but the ceremony will definitely be at the observatory, which is just uber cool :-)
Monday, 2 March 2009
Snow!
8:00pm EST
So it snowed today. A lot. About eight inches total around where I live, in fact. I didn't see when it was snowing the hardest because I was sleeping off a migraine (the first one in fifteen days, thankyouverymuch new medication that I'm taking), but John said it was almost blizzardy, which must have looked quite impressive. By the time I woke up, John had already shoveled the driveway and so had most of our neighbors, so I didn't take any pictures. I did, however, take a few pictures before the migraine hit me hard and I had to go to bed, early in the morning, when it had already snowed two inches. Take a look at one of the pics I took:
About two inches of snow had fallen... and about six more would fall
in the following hours.
In other news, there have been a few updates to the website that I haven't mentioned. Not a lot, just a few things here and there that needed updating, like my CV and my thesis research page, and fixing a few typos that I found here or there. And also, John and I have started with the wedding planning, which we hadn't even thought about even though we've been engaged for almost ten months already, hehe. It's likely that I won't comment much here about the wedding planning (though I might mention significant milestones, such as finally choosing a date for the wedding, or buying my wedding dress, or securing the ceremony/reception venues), as I assume most people will find it utterly boring and/or simply won't be interested in the minutiae of our color scheme or flower selections :-P Besides, we'll probably make a separate website for the wedding, with the relevant information for the guests when the time is right.
Sunday, 11 January 2009
Travels and kitties....
11:00pm EST
Hello, my dear website. Hadn't seen you in a while. Happy New Year :-)
I've been quite busy in the past few weeks. In early December I went to the 24th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics in Vancouver (and contrary to my last experience with Canadian winters, it was not freezing cold while I was there). Then John and I went to Puerto Rico for Christmas. While there we went to Angélica and Miguel's wedding, the second wedding John and I have attended since getting engaged last May (the other wedding was Vanessa and Fredy's, in August), which was quite lovely. Then we came back home for a week and then we flew out to the AAS meeting in Long Beach, CA, which was an awesome week during which time I saw people I hadn't seen in years (Hi Rob! *waves*). We got back home Friday night. My travels are thankfully over for now, and I am exhausted. John's travel schedule, however, does go on for the rest of the month. I don't know how he does it. He traveled so much last semester, and he's still going.
In all this traveling we of course haven't been able to take the kitties with us, so John hired a cat-sitter to come take care of them every other day while we've been away. Every time we get home after a trip, even if we've only been gone for a weekend, we get back to a very angry and meowy Sampson and a very happy and purry Jeremy. Sampson, being the diva scaredy-cat that he is, doesn't particularly enjoy human company if he hasn't pre-approved it. Jeremy, on the other hand, is always happy and enjoys the attention. And every time we've been away, John and I end up talking about how much we miss the kitties. I swear, sometimes we act like the parents of two little kids after dropping them off at preschool for the first time ever. It's kinda cute though, if I may say so myself, hehehe, since the kitties are kinda like our babies. Our little nine-year-old furry and purry babies who shed a lot :-P
Disclaimer: Everything within the Update Archive represents my views and opinions only, and do not represent the Department of Astronomy, nor Pennsylvania State University, nor NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, nor UPR-Mayagüez, nor any other institution that I may have any kind of affiliation with at any moment in time -- past, present or future.
