I Should Go To Bed

But I've only updated this thing once in over two weeks, and it wasn't much of an update. Here's all you're going to get of the last two weeks:

The week before Spring Break:
Jennifer came up to visit Lee; Brent came up to work on things for his thesis. This turned my two-bedroom apartment into housing for 4. Brent was only here for two nights, so it wasn't over crowded for too long, but that whole week just seemed long because I was ready for break. I got my thesis topic approved, and started reading some papers that will directly apply to my thesis, so that was progress, at least. Classes were long and boring.

Spring Break:
Monday, Lee and I put in a full day of work on our respective missiles. We met at CBU in the morning, worked until a class kicked us out of the computer lab, went to lunch with the coolest man on the planet - Dr. Shiue, then worked another few hours after lunch. I didn't finish it there, but over the week, I did finish my grain designs. The Flandro said today that he didn't think it was overly important to have it detailed, but it won't hurt to have it done anyway.

The rest of the week was semi-productive mixed with lots of doing nothing. I didn't accomplish anything except a propellant grain design, but I really didn't need to do any more than that. I got to spend some time with friends and family, which isn't always the case when I'm in town. All-in-all, it was a good spring break. It was also my last spring break. I may pursue other degrees, but I doubt it will be without a real job in the background (or job in the foreground, degree in the background), so these pure vacations are nice while they last.

Today:
I went to school about my normal time, 10AM and did nothing until my 10:45 class. The instructor had not shown up at 10:50, and we were debating ettiquette related to leaving, when the Flandro showed up and told us that instructor Paul wouldn't be there today. So the Flandro answered a question or two and let us go before 11. I could have waited until today or even tomorrow morning to drive back to Tullahoma if I'd known this class was going to be cancelled (granted, I don't think the instructor knew much before we did today, so there's no one to blame). I ate lunch at school, came back here and took a quick nap, then went to the store to stock up on food stuff for the next week or so, cooked some cornbread and whipped up some mashed potatoes while Lee handled frying the chicken, watched some Enterprise, then killed a couple hours staring at the interweb. Nice way to ease back into the work. More tomorrow.