Wayne and Rebecca Madsen

Papers, a presentation, and the stomach flu. That’s what our week consisted of.

Wayne had a couple of tough papers to work on all week, one for his Psychology class and one for his Art History class. Fortunately the Art History paper was just a rough draft, and the Psychology paper was just a 2-pager. The hardest thing was finding a relevant paper to write about!

The presentation was here at BYU, the Deseret Language and Linguistic Society Symposium. I presented the work I have done so far on my thesis project. It was nice to do, because it gave me a couple of new ideas to work with and helped me put what I’ve done so far into perspective a bit. And it was nice to be able to present at a low-key thing. I dressed up a bit, but wore no shoes. Yay.

And the stomach flu lasted a couple of days early on in the week, and we’re all back to normal here. Thank goodness for that. And thank goodness Wayne was hit less hard than I was, so he could take care of me. I haven’t been sick like that for a long time, and had forgotten what to do!

We also broke our laptop power adapter, so we’re laptop-less until the replacement we ordered arrived. [it broke itself...because it was old and cheap! -wayne] I knew we should have backed up a couple of weeks ago! Then I would actually be able to look up things like my address book and finances and recipes. Oh well. Such is life. We ordered a new one and we’re waiting for it to arrive. We’ll just play the waiting game.

We’re still waiting on a few more schools...hopefully this week we can hear back from more. We’re down to Los Angeles, Ohio, Boston, or, of course, San Jose.

Oh and Friday night we went to a free concert on campus...experimental music performed by the composer, Christian Wolff, and his trio, and a few of the exercises the BYU group for experimental music played with them too. It was interesting, and I enjoyed it, except for the lady who kept squeaking and yelling all the time! I have to admit I enjoyed the second half of the concert better when it was just the trio (i.e. no screaming lady). I guess we did something else this week besides papers, presenting, and getting sick!

Anyway, have a good week. Happy “pi day” to everyone on Tuesday. May the day bring lots of yummy pie. Or in our case, pizza pie.