still alive. . .

. . . yep. i'm still here.

candidacy exam has not destroyed me yet. but there's still about half of it to get through so i shouldn't speak too soon. i turned in my proposal last week and am now waiting for feedback from my committee. and of course waiting=catching up with lab work.

did go to our church retreat this weekend. it was a fun and refreshing time. and i got a tan so hurrah!

got to see jorge cham's talk last night. it was hilarious!also got the PhD book 1 and had him sign it which was pretty neat. of course i'm a dork since shiela already gave me a signed copy of the second one but he was there so why not. and in fairness, it was addressed to paul and jona :)

am also training for a 5k. i'm going to run a 5k! even i couldn't believe i was signing on to do that. i've been training for a while now. hope it pays off. it's for a good cause though (breast cancer research) and better still is i'm not paying for it (paul's office is). paul also got me fancy running shoes because apparently i don't have normal-sized feet and because he's sweet that way. so i guess i really need to run now.

that's it really. will try to update if anything exciting happens. . . maybe y'all have to wait a while then :)