I hope I don't run into any sort of major buzz-kill on this because, even without the cite-while-you-write of EndNote, Mendeley beats it with its hands tied behind its back!
- Mood:
excited
This year was the first time we got Mattie all dressed up and took her out trick-or-treating around our new neighbourhood. It was a lots of fun, but Mattie didn't last too long.
On another note, for the past month or so I've been wearing a pedometer again for a school challenge. Now that I'm done, Mattie has decided that she wants to be like daddy, so she went ahead and put it on her pants and let me tell you: that girl walks a lot! (When she isn't being held by one of us…)
- Location:United States, Indiana, Bloomington
- Mood:
happy
For some reason, all of my classes, research groups and whatnot have major time-sensitive projects due in the coming week. This includes a mini lit. review, a design document, some prototypes and a PowerPoint presentation to support some curriculum change proposals. In addition, we are dealing with some stress at Mattie's daycare and that, too is sapping time.
I cannot wait for the winter break! Or at least mid-November when my mother may come out here to spend some time with us.
- Location:US, Indiana, Monroe, Bloomington, W Sowders Sq, 3614
- Mood:Stressed
Our little girl just loves to dance!
- Location:United States, Indiana, Bloomington
- Mood:
hungry
Most important though is that I feel it incumbent upon me to clarify how I feel because I may be complaining too much lately. I am excessively happy these days. I love my classes, Misun and Mattie are both doing well and there's tons to do when we're not busy with schoolwork. However, that brings me to the one major problem — time. There is, naturally, not nearly enough of it. This is no surprise to anyone because I don't think there are many people who feel they have enough of it; too little, or too much seem to be the only options. So, that is very stressful and therefore, since I am both stressed and happy, I figure I'm feeling:
- Location:United States, Indiana, Bloomington
- Mood:
strappy
On another note, I'm gradually giving up the ghost regarding having any ability to get any sort of work done during the day while Mattie is awake. Of course, I've known this for a long time, but I keep fighting it.
We had a nice little celebration of Chuseok (Thanksgiving) here with some of our friends yesterday. Misun cooked up a storm and it was all delicious. We had two families over (one from Sunflower and one couple we knew from Red Hat) and they got along quite well. The Sunflower family brought their two children and one of them is about eight years old. He had a grand old time playing with McLovin and that made us feel great. I get nervous that, with our serious time constraints, that McLovin is getting neglected, but I know that it's going to be great for everyone of us in the long run. Days like yesterday make me feel better.
- Location:United States, Indiana, Bloomington
- Mood: satisfied
Last weekend, when Mattie woke up, I noticed, after about an hour of play, that she was only wearing one of her two earrings! I freaked out, afraid we might have to subject her to the piercing again, but I couldn't find the earring anywhere. Then Misun came to the rescue with one of her extra earrings and all is, once again, well in the world.
But now she's wearing one gold stud and one gold hoop. Somebody help us!
- Location:At home
- Mood:Relieved
The current advertisement at the end of the Onion Radio News podcasts makes me laugh every time I hear it: The Onion now covers soccer and other women's sports […]. My apologies, Greg (and other soccer fans - I like the sport myself), but the way they say it is just hysterical. It's just so matter-of-fact that it gets me every time!
We brought home a puppy and so far, Mattie loves her. She was a shelter puppy and, as near as we can tell, she's mostly black Lab. We call her McLovin (Mattie actually calls her "DEE!" - like just about everything else). She's a playful and excitable little one and she's already grown significantly bigger than you see her in this video. Mattie is adjusting, but she's still needs some protection sometimes from her happy little dog.
- Location:United States, Indiana, Bloomington
- Mood: happy
This video is awesome! There's another one in front of a television with this video on it. I cannot believe how into it this little one gets...
Three weeks in and my life is extremely crazy. As a family, I suspect that what Misun and have bitten off will take a real long time to chew through. It's all very exciting though and when I'm not feeling about to explode, I am loving it!
The classes are already quite engaging (although a bunch of it is review — thanks Syracuse and past experience!) and I love both of the research groups I am in so far.
In other news, our house is shaping up quite nicely. Most importantly, Misun now feels like it's ours and not just mine. My major complaint here is that I don't know when I'll manage to find time to do any of the cool stuff available here.
Anyway, I'll try to write more later, but I'm on the bus right now and this isn't the best time to write.
The drive out here wasn't too awful. Of course, I mostly sat back and relaxed while Misun packed everything up and loaded the truck with Matt. Then, Matt mostly drove the ginormous truck I rented (all by myself and with no help) from our (former) home in New York City to our new home here in Indiana. I actually did most of the night driving, and that included all of Manhattan and 99% of New Jersey. We only had one casualty during the trip (as near as we can tell — the ( 항아리 ) that we used to hold our rice. I'm actually very sad about that, but it's replaceable.
I love our new home! I'll certainly post video and floorplan and all that good stuff at some point, but the most important thing right now is that Mattie has her own bed in her own room and she is quite happy to sleep there through the night! How awesome is that? Speaking of Mattie, she is loving it here already. She goes to parks and the pool (yes, there's one in our complex!) and now even day care! We signed up with the Sunflower Cooperative Daycare and we all love it so far. It's all parent-run (but subsidised by the university) and so it's incredibly inexpensive and we get to take part in watching Mattie! I've already done about six hours there and I really like it.
Since we've arrived, we've purchased a red Honda Odyssey (minivan) and we love it. It's got all the space we could possibly need for anything we could possibly want. Mattie has already shown that she can fall asleep in it with no problem, so I'm pretty happy.
Lots more has happened and lots more is coming, but Misun and I have both signed up for classes this semester and I'm already set to work on assisting with one class and I'm a part of another research group. Very cool!
- Location:Bloomington, IN
- Mood: excited
There was a mob at the check-in counter in Regina when I got there. It seems their computer system went down and they had to do everything by hand off of a fax! The flight itself wasn't bad, but I missed my connection and, as a result, I'll be an hour late in NYC. A bit inconvenient, but we'll make it through for sure.
Regina was really pretty nice. I got to walk through a beautiful park on my way to class every morning and the hotel was old school - in a good way. Very classy. Best though were my students - they were great! Definitely the right audience for this class and a good mix of skill levels. The only bad thing was that most places didn't accept American Express and some wouldn't even take Visa or Mastercard. For example, I was forced to cancel my order at Tim Horton's because they only wanted debit - Canadian debit!
I didn't manage to find a single shot glass for our collection anywhere (I was in a rush at the airport, though), but I did manage to pick up a couple of cute books for Mattie though.
We saw Kevin, Iona and Sajin tonight for dinner and it was bittersweet. We were newlyweds together and first time parents together and now we're both moving on. It was great to see them, but saying goodbye was strange.
Mattie is the second coming of the Energizer Bunny - yesterday she climbed up the five flights of stairs to our apartment. And this was after walking to and from CVS. She is nuts!
We saw Kevin, Iona and Sajin tonight for dinner and it was bittersweet. We were newlyweds together and first time parents together and now we're both moving on. It was great to see them, but saying goodbye was strange.
Mattie is the second coming of the Energizer Bunny - yesterday she climbed up the five flights of stairs to our apartment. And this was after walking to and from CVS. She is nuts!
I had no idea!
It seems that Bruce managed to get fourth row tickets — right behind home plate! I've never been anywhere near that close before. I could actually see the players! The bat boys were sitting right in front of us and taking all sorts of abuse throughout the game in the crowd's efforts to score balls from them and that was kinda' fun. The best part though, was the game itself. How can you not love a game that goes back and forth with each inning, that catapults a few normally mediocre players to greatness and finishes with one of them hitting his first Grand Slam? The best part though, was being with Bruce and Grampa as they got so much enjoyment from the game.
There were so many ways this experience did not suck. Thanks, Bruce! I'd join you for another sporting event any time — no matter how skeptical I am (and not just because of the seats).
- Location:Red Hat Inc, New York, NY
- Mood: happy
One of the professors in my department for next year has asked me to assist with one of the classes he'll be offering this coming semester: Survey of Serious Games. I don't know yet how exactly I'll be helping, but I'm very excited nonetheless.
Yikes!
- Location:Red Hat Inc, New York, NY
- Mood:
busy
Wonder Girls' US Debut Single: Nobody
This video is great! Apparently the Wonder Girls are sweeping through Asia and now they're the opening act for The Jonas Brothers and Misun ran across them performing on some talk show the other night, but this one is fantastic!
- Location:Red Hat Inc, New York, NY
- Mood: happy
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