New Year!
Well, I’ve been absent for a while – not much to say, not much time to say it… but I’m going to try this year to post maybe less often, but with more interesting things to say – we’ll see how that goes…
I didn’t really make formal new years resolutions this year (I don’t normally anyway), but my major informal resolution is to get fitter, specifically in time for the Cooper River Bridge 10K run, where I plan on running/walking come April 1st (also my 26th birthday!) – I think Mom and Matthew are also planning on walking/running too 
This is also the beach weekend for YAF, originally so people could walk/run in the race, but lots of people go just for fun too (like I did last year!) – all in all, it should be a great birthday weekend for 2006!
I’m in the middle of a very stressful time in school – I’ve got a departmental seminar to give in a week and a half (for the whole dept, faculty, students, etc) and then my committee is meeting the following Wednesday (Feb 1st), so I’m massively freaking out (at least internally) about not having finished enough to be where I am right now – this is my classmates’ and my first time giving a full 50-60 min seminar (last year was only a half seminar), so I’m worried about having enough data to talk about for that long… plus my committee meetings are always stressful, but they’re a necessary part of progressing through grad school, and they’re supposed to be helpful in guiding the progress of my research, as well as giving advice about post-grad stuff, but mostly they just scare me! The positives are that I have most of the paper to tell my committee about, plus I mentored a first-year grad student in the fall whose work contributed to my project, so I hope my committee will understand how much time that all took away from actual research sometimes… we’ll see…
OK, that’s enough for now!
Don’t worry about making things “more interesting” – I like reading whatever you post! Good luck with getting through your stressful week. Love you!