I was in the gym tonight, and I managed to pull down 150 (pounds maybe) on the vertical machine, but I also pulled a muscle in my lower neck/back. I am hoping that if I keep working up to 200 pounds I will be able to do a chin up by the Summer, but that may have to wait for my neck to feel better.
Things are very hectic here at the moment. I have this theory that there is a psychic miasma, which reaches a high point around the campus at this time of year. I noticed it last year, and that once the semester is over it drops off noticeably. It may have something to do with the Spring weather which is only now just finally coming to Montana.
I am flying home in about 3 weeks, so I am very much looking forward to that. I haven't been home to Australia in almost 2.5 years, so naturally I am excited. I have a long list of things I would like to do when I get home, and having a rest is definitely high on the agenda.
Bonnie is well and busy with her assignments, this Summer she will concentrate on her research and getting a publication and maybe her Master's thesis out of the way. Kadie is looking for Summer jobs, and I have found lots of options for her. As I have said all along, I cannot make her choose, but I can provide her with possibilities.
I read Sherilyn's web site today, and she mentioned it had been seven years for her since “the beginning”. Given how close our mutual timetables are, it gave me pause to reflect on that for a moment. My, in some ways it seems hardly that long ago at hall, a trick of the memory which can bridge the greatest divide of all, the past from the present.
In more mundane news, I have been spending 10 and 12 hours days in the lab, especially since daylight savings makes the days so long here now. I really enjoy that, but the long days do wear on me a bit. I am working on grant proposals, something I will have less time for when I am teaching. What exactly I will teach in my assigned class is uncertain just yet, but I want to drive home an understanding of what science is and isn't. What the scientific method means we can know, and what we can never know. If my students can take away one thing, than I hope it will be a better understanding of that.