Thursday, April 18th, 2013

Good morning!  As you can see, I'm pretty much on cloud 9 the past couple of days.  The weather yesterday and today is S-T-U-N-N-I-N-G.  Since I got my run out of the way yesterday morning, I was free to take the pups on a looong afternoon walk in the Park.  I left work a bit early and once we got there, we just took some time to lay in the grass in the sunshine.  It was the perfect temperature - cool enough to be refreshing - but the sunshine made it non-goosebump inducing.  There were people out everywhere and everything is in bloom.  Kids were playing, people snoozing.  Bear and Sofie were the perfect company. 

This morning was chilly - but refreshingly so.  I can't get enough of the blossoms.  Love the blossoms.  In fact - maybe I should make some peanut butter blossoms to celebrate all the blossoms. 

In other news - I just found out that my tuition at qBio this summer was waived for a scholarship!  Yay!!  This means that I just have to pull some strings with Cornell & Grégoire to get the room, board, and flights covered.  qBio is starting to be very real and coming up super fast.  I will officially be away at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico from July 21 to August 10.  I kind of can't imagine being away from Brian and the pups for so long but we'll deal.  I'm SO excited.  Like SO SO SO excited.  I've been trying to learn to love avocado - for now that involves thinking about it in a nice way.  If Santa Fe can't make me a guac-lover then nothing can.  I plan on eating at least one burrito a day.  The THINGS I'M GOING TO LEARN!!!  I'll be a regular computational biologist when I get back.  ;)  Well maybe not quite....but it's a stepping stone. 

Well, I hope you guys enjoy Spring and have a great day!

Carpe diem,

J