We can't think of anything we did this week. At all. :) I mean, besides work and school, of course. We even worked on class projects and my thesis proposal on Friday night, which is usually date night. Oh, we rented Madagascar and watched that, but we were working on other things while we watched. But the good news is, we're almost done with the semester! Yay! We've almost officially survived. For what that's worth.
Well that's a short letter. :) Just kidding. I can ramble about something else for awhile. I'm excited to have my thesis proposal presentation scheduled. It will be the morning of December 15th, just a day or two before we leave town. Right before the end of the semester, which was my absolute deadline for getting this done. :) Nothing like burning the midnight oil, eh? It's just been tricky finding time to work on thesis stuff while in a more than full course-load - which is why I had wanted to get this done before this semester and before we left for Seattle. But change happens, and it's important to adapt to those changes. [It seems like we'll be doing a lot of things at the end, right before we leave. -Wayne]
I have the baseline system up and running for my thesis project. Now I just need to do the interesting stuff to improve it. :) It generates paraphrases that are mostly just a few words different, but hopefully I can improve on that. I just needed to get some preliminary results to talk about in my proposal presentation.
Wayne worked on an interesting project Friday night. He wrote about it here and yesterday we took pictures of the sculpture and some of his finished paintings with slide film. It was tricky because it was snowing off and on all day, so the sun wasn't very bright, and we couldn't take the slides out in the open because then we would get snow on the paintings. We're just hoping the slides come out well despite the lighting issues, but we'll find out on Tuesday either way.
Our two major concerns right now are getting applications put together for MFA programs for Wayne, and getting my thesis proposed. We're making steady progress on both things, so life is good. Busy, but good. Bring on Christmas break!! :)
-Becca and Wayne
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