So a lot of this week was spent working on editing my thesis once I got comments back from my advisor and second committee members. I even spent a good chunk of the 4th just working on that. It was hard to fall asleep at night a couple of nights, trying to turn my brain off on what else I wanted to add and include. I almost have a final draft now...just a few more comments that my advisor sent yesterday that I'll wake up bright and early tomorrow to work on. Now the trick is getting the defense scheduled when my whole committee is in town! It looks like it will either happen this Thursday morning, or not until August 17th. I'm hoping for this week.
The 4th of July we didn't do much. I helped the YW/YM in the ward put up flags in people's yard early in the morning, and went right back to sleep until we had sadly missed the Madsen family breakfast thing we had been planning on going to. [somehow i slept through Rebecca waking up, the alarm and only woke up when she came back, dragged me out of bed and showed me all the hot air balloons outside. it was fun! -wayne] After that, we joined our neighbor for a picnic lunch and read a book together a bit, and working on my thesis.
Wayne worked with a fellow BYU art student, Jason, on a sound project. They wrapped paper around a speaker, and put a glob of paint on the paper, and turned the speaker up, filming the way the paint bounced around depending on the sound waves and whatnot. [bob marley makes the best splatter paintings.] This is a project that had a grant helping to fund it, so they purchased a tripod to use during the project, and once they were done with it, Wayne got to take it home! So we are now proud owners of a free-to-us, sturdy tripod [mmm..tripod]. Yay.
Yesterday we went up to Evanston, Wyoming to go to Wayne's cousin Adam's wedding. It was nice to be able to visit with grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins we don't see very often. Well worth the drive. On the way home, we even stopped in SLC to see Aunt Sharla.
This morning we had a YW class presidency meeting. It was hard, because we were trying to plan activities for weeks I won't even be around, so I had to try and help suggest activities where I am not a crucial figure in the events. It's better that way anyway, because it puts them in charge more. The only trouble was they loved petting Star cat so much that they paid more attention to her than to our agenda! :) At least Star cat wasn't scared of them; she cozied right up to them on the couch.
It looks like we will be flying out to San Jose a week from Wednesday or Thursday for a job interview; Wayne will come too so he can make some arrangments at SJSU, and help apartment hunt. But we're waiting to buy the tickets until the company gives me a flight itinerary.
That's the latest in our world. Have a fun week!
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