Rebecca is still trying to convince 25+ people to take her survey. Unfortunately, close friends and relatives shouldn't take the survey because they might give "biased" results; but you could tell all your friends to take it! :)
We've tried various different things. Rebecca started with a Google webgroup which had a bunch of people signed up to take the survey, but many of those people fell through. Then we posted flyers all over campus and offered bribes (a chocolate bar) to people who take it, but most of the campus is full of EFY kids who aren't old enough to take this survey. So we've been waiting and praying that more people will take her survey so she can write about it in her thesis. [I also am of the opinion that some people who are willing have been unable to take it, because I am using someone else's java applet software to run the survey; so yesterday and the day before I learned a bit more about cgi so I could write my own survey software. That should be up tomorrow, as long as I can convince myself there are less bugs in what I wrote than in the software I'm already using! -beck]
This week has been the last week of classes for me. On Monday, Rebecca and I went to the golf course for my class. By the end of the term, I had to complete 27 holes of golf. We did 18 of those Monday evening in the 90+ degree weather. By the end, we were parched and dehydrated but Rebecca had the great idea to go to 7-11 and get some slurpees. Ah, brainfreezes are a small price to pay for quenching thirst.
Not much else happened this week. By Thursday, things had gotten rather chilly around here, but the Young Women had made plans to go swimming (outside). Rebecca refused to get in the water, but the girls had a good time splashing around. [I did jump on the trampoline with them, and get "accidentally" close enough that they could splash me... -beck]
Saturday, we built and filmed a mock-up version of an installation I'm working on. My professor politely informed me that if I didn't have a video of the installation space by the final, then I'd fail his 1 credit hour class. Nice. [personally I think his professor is bluffing, but Wayne didn't want to risk it! -beck] After a lot of planning and figuring out where to put this thing together, we commandeered the Relief Society room in our ward building for 4 hours. While Rebecca cleared out the room, I drove all over to pick up the slide projector and bedsheets for the project (and a little snack for us both). We picked up some friends' couches, and filled the room with couches and tried to make it feel home-y. Then, we put on a little slide show. And filmed it. And then, the tape went bad and when I tried to edit the video, it was a mess. But I'm still going to turn it in anyways and hope that I pass the class ;) .
We still haven't heard back from jobs in San Jose for Rebecca. We're still hoping she can make her July 7th deadline for her thesis. I'm still hoping I pass all my classes so I can graduate. Last night we registered me for my graduate classes. And if we're moving, we need to do it in about a month and a half. No pressure, right?
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