Student SPHere 2008-09

Its been a busy week. Two papers down, one more to go. I had every intention of heading to campus this morning to finish the last paper, but Murphy had other plans. Turns out sometime in the early morning hours, the electronic igniter on our furnace gave out, so we woke up cold. It was 52 in the house this morning; thankfully Centerpoint was able to get a guy out to the house by 10:30. I am just thankful that this happened when we were around, so we could get it fixed right away. So now its all warm again.

I got one more big project left, three take home finals and one more paper. Its going to be a busy few days. The big project is a group presentation of a risk assessment our group has been working on in our Risk Analysis class. It should be interesting as our professor and TA will be our audience and assuming multiple identities, so its kinda like we are talking to a hostile audience. I am not looking forward to the take home finals, they always tend to take a lot of time to finish.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving down in Iowa. We spent the time at Megan’s dad, where we had a wonderful smoked turkey. It was nice to just take a break and enjoy family for a few days. I did not bring any school/work stuff, which made the past few days a bit stressful. It was worth it though, to just kick back and relax a bit. We did hit up the black Friday sales though. It never ceases to amaze me how dedicated some people are to shopping. We ran into people that waited to get into a store and then for two hours in line to buy a few things. Pretty crazy if you ask me. We hit the stores at the late hour of 7 am.
It looks like we have snow in the forecast, I am looking forward to it. I am still enjoying the novelty of shoveling my driveway. I always thought cold weather and a nasty wind chill are more tolerable with a nice snow. At the very least it will help me stay in side and study this weekend.