joepa would've been so proud

last night lacey and i took what is quite possibly my favorite picture from state college to date. it reflects the miniscule amount of excitement needed to make us happy and the joepa fever that pervades the entire area. please, please love it as much as i do.

there's been a lot of grilling hubub around here lately. the summer weather preview that rolled through last week has made us all eager to be doing summer things, i think. we had two lab visits on saturday and spent the downtime in between at the batting cages on mount tussey. fun times were had by all, i think, and we definitely recruited rachel as a player for the softball team we're trying to put together. we're at five players or so now, so hopefully we can get things worked out so that we have enough for a full team. that would make me very much happy.

i also am not necessarily disappointed about the fact that two of my tentative travel dates are no longer set to be carried out. the july trip to UC Davis and the june trip to louisville have been scratched, each for different reasons, but cumulatively giving me two weeks of my summer back, which is nice. if i can get a financial footing under me, i should be able to go home? maybe? hopfully?

the other excitement came from a fiery round of bowling last weekend, when i rolled seven strikes in a row. there is photographic evidence for five of the seven. you'll just have to take my word that the first two balls of my next game were strikes also. this seems to only happen when we bowl in big groups with visitors present, because i think the last time i did it was when nick was in town.

that's it for now, i think. finals are over and this summer will be full of paper-writing time, i think. there are worse ways to spend it, to be sure, but i'm going to need a bit of my motivation back to start making a dent in the workload. and if the rationality of that doesn't inspire me, i can always try to kickstart my energy level by thinking that kara will be here in two more weeks!