Sunday, May 30, 2010

Gap week

Sorry for not posting last week. I took a week and went up to norcal. Visited lots of friends and family, saw stacy off to grad school, which was nice. I went up to the high school and chatted with all the coaches and teachers which I really enjoyed too. I stayed with my buddy Garrett the whole time, and we had a lot of fun. Also, had dinner with an old co-workers and her family: I made Sangria and Garrett cooked dinner so that was really cool. Then, I went down and spent a day with Shannon and Rob and then the night with my buddy Matt and his girlfriend who just moved into San Franciscio in a really nice apartment.

So I was gone May 17-25, then I got home and finally got some stuff done. I sent out my grad announcements the few days before I left. I re-enrolled in my teaching credential program, I only have 3 classes left woohoo. Im taking 2 in june and 1 in july, so im really excited about that. Then, I finally bought an external hard drive and recovered the data from my old laptop. The guy who did it lives where I work and he did it for like 40$, super cheap. If anyone lives near Riverside and needs CPU repairs, hit up http://www.ewsss.com/. Anyways, I got all my music back which is like 4000 songs, about 1000 pics, and all my old documents including my coaching stuff.

I have been watching the French Open a little bit, this marks around 2 years that I have been watching tennis a lot. Crazy it has gone by so fast. Anyways, Federer is in the quarterfinals and will play Robin Soderling who he beat in last years final. It should be a good match, but I think Fed will take it. John and I are going to start playing again next week which will be nice since I havent played in like 6 weeks. Im going to be so rusty.

Other than that not too much new going on.. Couple of potential teaching job prospects back up near Auburn, so we will see how those shake out. Still graduating June 19, still working on the thesis (kinda), I need to really get on that this next week. Oh yeah and im going to vegas tonight for a couple days so that should be fun.

Anyways, hope everyone is well, see ya!

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Yepppppppppppppp

Hey hey,

Just watching the Federer-Nadal final at the Madrid tourney. Its a good match so far, Nadal just won a first tight set.

Not too much exciting this week, hung out with Omar friday night and had a good time. Lots of running, working out, and thesis. Printed out my grad announcements friday and im going to mail them out tomorrow I think.

Going up north on tuesday to see some friends which will be fun, wish I was going up today because Lance Armstrong is riding through auburn and it would be cool to see him.

Anyways, not much else going on, see ya all later.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Happy Mothers day

Happy mothers day to all the mothers out there, thanks for bringing us all into this world and doing what you do.

Just got done chatting with my own mom for about 30 minutes, good talk, we don't speak that often so. Spent all week working on my thesis really hard, got a lot done. Im meeting with Dr. Jones tomorrow, to discuss the layout and argument of the thesis some more. Just trying to push through it.

Went down to USC for a night to hang out with some buddies, good seeing those guys. Also, Friday night I hung out with Omar, one of my tennis buddies down here which was fun. Nice to get out. Yesterday I played golf with my dad for the first time in 9 months, I bet everyone can guess how that went haha. We also had dinner and tonight are going to see Iron man 2, which will be fun.

Trying to plan my summer out. I graduate June 19, which will be nice. Then my sister and her fiancee are moving to Boise, ID in the beginning of july, so Ill probably drive up and help them move. I dont know if this means Im going to Boise too or what but I can at least help them pack. Omar is going to Europe for a month in July and wants me to tag along. I really do want to get back to Europe, its tempting to have the opportunity to travel with someone too. I just dont know if I can swing it financially, Europe is expensive over the summer. Also, my other tennis buddy John is going up to Vancouver for several weeks and wants me to come hang out for a week or so. I definitely want to do some traveling, just need to figure it out money-wise and time-wise with my thesis.

Anyways, hope everyone is good. Take care.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Better week

Hey everyone,

Just at work, working on my thesis. My thesis has a total of four chapters (Intro, literature review, main body, and conclusion). Im just about done with my first 2 chapters and am going to email them out to my committee tonight.

Seems like everyone around me is going through a hard time right now, its very disconcerting. Maybe people are constantly having issues but I just have been blocking them out the last few months? Hard to tell.

Nothing new really to report, just really need to keep working on this thing. First draft is due May 14, so its coming up in a hurry.

Take care.