so here’s my dramatic announcement for today…ready?
i think i do want a ph.d. (and after seeing buzz’s presentation on the research she did for her d.phil, which she presented it to our division today, i want to be a rhodes scholar too, hee hee.)
no, but seriously. i will admit that today’s enthusiasm is likely due to buzz’s presentation and jeremy’s intern pitch dry run this afternoon where he talked about his master’s and soon-to-be ph.d. research. and also the fact that the research sounded really cool, and i began to picture myself doing some really cool experiment and tinkering around with hardware. and also the fact that i realized that the reason steve and i had such trouble finding information on hybrid rocket injectors back in the spring when we were doing our guided research could be because there simply hasn’t been enough research in the area, and that i could do something about that. wow…
and despite carter saying he would never want to do a ph.d. after watching his dad do one, and despite buzz saying the 6 months she spent actually writing her thesis were the worst months of her life… i dunno. a ph.d. is still something i would like to do for myself.
we’ll see. that is all i can say at the moment i suppose.
last night was nice. after my run and shower, i went over to becca’s and watched friends and will & grace while she cooked dinner for me. 😉 her mom sent her a new recipe book and she has been wanting to try things out, but wanted a guinea pig. i was happy to oblige–hey, free dinner is always good. last night she made roasted vegetables and then pasta with an artichoke and tomato sauce. it was good. a little heavy on the olive oil perhaps, but good.
random thought: yesterday i saw a tv commercial for spam. ewwwww.
i have fun weekend plans in order. tonight i’m going out with a bunch of people to buca di beppo’s, a family style italian place. yummy. tomorrow is a soccer game and then lunch at pe-te’s in celebration of buzz’s official crowning as a doctor of philosophy. she’s graduating in absentia at 1:00 oxford time, 7:00 a.m. houston time, so by the time we take the field for soccer at 10:15 she’ll have been a doctor for 3 whole hours. 🙂 then after lunch i’m heading west of san antonio to join gavin, jen, and gavin’s sister and her friend for two nights of camping at garner state park (and the weather is supposed to be gorgeous!). yep that’s right folks, saturday and sunday nights camping, because monday is veteran’s day and another lovely paid holiday for civil servants like myself. woohoo! and monday night i’m heading downtown to hear maya angelou speak. so it’ll be a full, fun weekend.
i probably won’t update again until monday. 🙂
