My first field trip

This is the only one of me, but it was taken at the end of the trip. I was too busy up until this point.


This is a pretty cool outcrop. It shows a transitional period of a marine environment having storm surges and turns into a really shallow marine environment where it wasn't always under water.


This is a geopedal indicator. It shows which way is up. I would have to talk and point to the picture in order to have most people understand, but the gist of it is that mud goes to the bottom, and then sparite fills in holes later on. This is a picture of that.


A pretty cool fossil.


This is a black dolomite nodule. I still need to research how those got there...


This is the first outcrop. It was pretty fun to just go and look at rocks. They are so fascinating if you know what you are looking at, or have an interest in finding out what you are looking at.

FAFSA

Free Application for Federal Student Aid. I decided to spell it out if anyone reading this doesn't know what it is. So I have had to fill out a FAFSA for the last 5 years. It has been so nice to me! It has made going to school much easier. So I got an email from my department reminding me to hand in some scholarship applications and fill out my FAFSA for the priority deadline. Endrit got his W-2 two days ago so I had all the information that I needed to fill it out.

After I was done filing it out and submitting it, I realized that it was my LAST FAFSA that I have to fill out!!!!! I can't believe how libirating it is for me to know that there are things that I am starting not have to do anymore! Seriously it is almost surreal. Now here is hoping that I get some good financial aid so I don't have to pay too much for my last year of education.

Sitting here in class...

I am bored so I blog. School is going well so far. We don't have any grade for Endrit's seminar but we are still sure that he did everything that he needed to do in order to pass. I am not too worried. His bos gave him back the paper that he wrote for publication about 2 months ago to revise it, so we are hoping that he will be able to get a couple of papers published by the end of the year.

Endrit is almost 26. His birthday is next Sunday. I am hoping that we will go out to dinner on Saturday. Who knows. It is up to Endrit. He gets to do what ever he wants for his birthday. It will be fun.

New Entertainment Center

I hated seeing all of the power cords so I convinced Endrit to buy a new entertainment center so that we had more vertical storage. I love it!!! I just wanted to share.

First assignment of the semester

The first assignment that I had this semester was a 3 page paper for my educational psychology class. It isn't due for another week and I just finished it today! I am really proud of myself. I need to do a couple of other things and I really want to just sit down this weekend and get all of the quizzes for a class done so that it is one less thing on my plate for this semester. It took until last night for me to get into the school mode. Last night I was in a class that was talking about all of the things that I already know so I decided that technically I am only taking 12 credits because 3 of my 15 credits are things that I already know. That is nice.

Endrit's seminar went quite well. I didn't get to see it, but from the things that Endrit has told me, we should be expecting a good grade to be mailed to us within the next little while.

So now that school has started it is good. It took a while to get into the school mode, but now I am here!

New Computer

My brother is pretty awesome. I asked a while ago if I could borrow the computer that he wasn't using. He told me that I could just as long as he had time to get some of the things off of it. I was fine with that because he said that I could borrow the computer. This last weekend Phillip was coming up to stay at my apartment for me to take him to and from his Lasik surgery. He brought me the computer and some Christmas things that my Mom bought for me on the after Christmas sales. I am currently blogging on my new laptop. Phillip said that it is mine. It is nice that Endrit and I have our own computers because it is getting to the point, for school, we needed 2 computers. It just gets too complex with trying to figure out who gets the laptop when. When we got it, Endrit did his whole, make the computer better thing and doubled the RAM. We just happened to have some old RAM from our Dell that worked. Go figure. Endrit is a funny person. I would have never thought of it.

I was able to see the Lasik procedure. It was pretty cool and kind of gross at the same time.

Endrit has his seminar today. He is really nervous about it. I know that it will be just fine and he will pass with flying colors, but he is still nervous about it. I don't blame him. I would be nervous as well. It will be nice to have this out of the way. Just one more step for him on his way to a PhD.

That is about it. I have to miss his seminar because I have a class at the same time. I am almost happy about it because people are just so mean with questions afterwards and I don't like to see Endrit so stressed out.

The Dangers of University!

I just thought that this was hilarious! What people actually believe.