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26 June 2011, 5:12 PM
Oh my it's been a while since I've updated, shame shame shame on me. Meagan and I just returned from vacation with the Rockett family in Panama City Beach Florida. We had a wonderfully relaxing week at our beachfront condo where the most difficult decisions were along the lines of what to have for lunch, what kind of beer to have next, and which direction to walk on the beach. Meagan and I celebrated our anniversary on the 19th with a wonderful dinner at Firefly, a restaurant that we thoroughly enjoyed, followed by a friendly putt-putt competition (I won, of course :) In other news since the last update, we've finally succeeded in purchasing our first home, a place we're quite pleased to be enjoying a few blocks from UAB's campus near UAB Highlands and Dreamland. It's quite a place, as it has a history as a multi-family home. The main floor where we live is completely finished, with rag-tag apartments in both the basement and attic that we'll enjoy overhauling as optional projects at some point in the next few years. Our most immediate project will be getting the back yard up to snuff along with the side and front yard. We'll likely be putting in some Emerald Zoysia sod in the back. I suppose I'll have to post some pictures of this place sometime soon. We feel that we're making progress at a good clip, we just got a new dining set this weekend, and perhaps will get a King sized bed sometime soon after getting spoiled to one on vacation... we'll see. We're getting ready to have dinner with Meagan's family in a bit, and tomorrow I'll have to return to work. Meagan will be starting her first day of rotations for Genetic Counseling tomorrow, so she'll get a bit of preview both of what it's like to work full time and of what her eventual profession will be like, I know she's looking forward to the experience. I'm also ready to get back into working, though the break was nice and it's always good to have some time off to step back to a 30,000 foot perspective. That's all, I promise to post some house pics soon.

13 March 2011, 6:49 PM
Meagan and I are enjoying a very stress-free day. I've had a test over all the material we've covered so far in my class, and she's on spring break now. We're preparing a delicious vegetable quiche for dinner along with an arugala salad. Yesterday we enjoyed being a part of my brother Brock's wedding to Nicki. It's great to see him so giddy with excitement, and I know they are looking forward to starting their lives together. Other than that it's the same old thing going on for us. We were glad to see all of our extended family at the wedding, it's always good to see everyone together all at once. Well anyway, I suppose I should go help Meagan with dinner now. I'll post next time something interesting happens, I guess. So maybe not very soon :)

12 February 2011, 11:19 AM
I guess if I'm going to keep this site around I should probably update from time to time, so here goes. The semester is in full swing, and classes are going OK. Work is going well. Besides that there are several things coming up that we're both looking forward to. First, the recruiting weekends for my program and Meagan's program are both coming up, so that should be fun. And second is of course Brock and Nicki's wedding, which is coming up on March 12th, which happens to be just one month away. I'm excited to see my brother so happy and ready to enter the next stage of his life. I've thought about a couple of times now that I should probably put some helpful stuff linked to in the bar on the left, or either get rid of it since I don't really use the site much and if I do it tends to be just to give a quick blurb update. I suppose I probably will start adding some more stuff, though it will probably be summer once classes have slowed down a bit. Maybe we'll put up some cooking stuff since we love to cook but probably don't as much as we would like to, then that would be motivation to I guess. Well anyway, I'm going to go get ready now to go meet Rebecca with Meagan for lunch. We haven't seen her in a while so that will be good, then Meagan and I will run some errands and hopefully have a somewhat productive day.

8 January 2011, 10:39 PM
And so it begins. The first week of the semester is through, and I already feel behind. We're in class with the dental and optometry students, so the professors are teaching us as if we've had anatomy, embryology, etc. Of course, they have all had it, and many of my classmates have had similar stuff as well, but I haven't, so it's all new to me. Meagan and I have had a pretty lazy day, but we're getting going on some school stuff this evening, both of us are trying to get started early with stuff and stay on top of things the best we can. I don't think it's a new years resolution so much as a requirement for the programs we're in, but I guess it's nice to be forced into not procrastinating. I finally updated my resume tonight, that's been needing to be done for a while. Anyway, I'm going to stop putting off studying by updating the site and get back to it.

2 January 2011, 10:52 AM
So, this is what 2011 feels like. I guess not so different than 2010, so far. Meagan told me that I had to update or cancel the site, since I don't ever seem to update anymore, but I suppose there's not too much to say, nothing too terribly interesting going on. I'm loving work, getting through class, and enjoying the time that's not those two things, too. We had a good time over the holidays with our families. Meagan got me a fancy schmancy new monitor to use at work and the new AppleTV so we can do the Netflix streaming thing. We also had a nice new years eve with some of our UAB friends, and a nice new years day full of greens, black-eyed peas, etc at my Parent's house. Resolutions for 2011.... hmmm... I dunno. Maybe I'll quit playing hold 'em tourneys online. I do so much better in Omaha, might as well stick to it. I should probably also do some type of exercise thing or eating thing or something too, but those never seem to work out for people so I don't know. Anyway that's all, I'm gonna go now. Happy new years to all.

30 October 2010, 2:01 PM
Hanging out at the lab waiting for an exposure to finish up. Meagan and I went to the farmer's market this morning and picked up some stuff for the week after sleeping in, which was wonderfully nice. Watched Rocky Horror picture show last night for the first time with Meagan Mark and Becca at Mark's house. It was interesting, a little odd, but interesting. I can imagine it may be cooler at some sort of theatrical production. One thing that was nice about last night was Mark's Limoncello, a delicious lemony alcoholy treat that mixes quite well with whiskey and soda water. This afternoon Meagan and I will be cooking up a delicious batch of chili while watching Auburn destroy Ole Miss, then we'll be joining in the Hallow's eve festivities tonight. Nothing too interesting has happened in the past two weeks, though we have started our Neuro-specific classes which is really nice. I have my eyes in several books at the moment, including The Vertical Farm by Dick Despommier, a co-host of This Week in Virology, one of the podcasts that I'm likely to be listening to on my morning walk from the north to the south side of Birmingham. It's an interesting concept, I suppose. I'm looking forward to going to San Diego in a few weeks for the SfN annual meeting. It will be a nice break between rotations, and I'm sure I'll see and listen to some cool stuff while I'm there. Time to go develop my film, over and out.

14 October 2010, 10:26 PM
I finished In Defense of Food today. It wasn't really anything special, same old stuff, nothing really new. Although, it is always interesting to see stuff re-hashed through someone else's eyes. Life keeps moving on and on, my alarm keeps going on every morning, and I keep rolling out of bed to generate some data. The work I do is tedious, but how it fits into the big picture is pretty exciting... we're working on drug discovery for Parkinson's in the lab I'm in now, and I may be doing some similar preliminary work in my next rotation starting in November. Somehow, I've managed to remain in the middle of the B range in my classes, which is good because I want to be exposed to the information we're learning in these general bio courses, but I'd rather spend more time at the lab than studying, at least until I get into my neuro-specific courses. More and more I'm realizing that this is certainly the right place for me to be. The drug discovery stuff I'm working on is a good synthesis between science and engineering, especially if I can be a part of some of the scale-up processes to high throughput screens for some of the stuff we're doing. Robots are neat :) I don't mind having to go in at night or on the weekends since we're so close, and It's nice to have flexible hours so I can take a little extra time to have a nice lunch with Meagan during the day, which we've been doing most every day. Anyway, I'm going to return to my evening of getting some things done with the hum of Meagan's television marathon in the background. Over and out.

27 September 2010, 6:57 AM
I don't know if anyone still reads this besides Meagan anymore, but she's been saying I need to update, so I will for her sake, at least :) It's a good bet when I go without updating for a while that I've probably been busy doing the same old stuff, which really is pretty boring and not that fun to write about, although I do enjoy it none the less. Today I'll be having a lecture from Dr. Korf, one of the keystone people in Meagan's genetic counseling program. He'll be giving us a lecture on Mendelian genetics (you know, the monk guy with the peas). We're wrapping up our 2nd module in this first semester on genetics. Besides that, things in the lab are going well. I'm getting some good data, which is nice after a few months without any real data consisting mostly of prep work. This is the fun part. In other news, we helped Brock move into the apartment where Nicki will be joining them after they are wed. The most interesting part of the day by far was moving an old upright piano up narrowly wound apartment steps. It took 5 of us exerting ourselves physically and mentally to finagle that thing into climbing those stairs, but we got it. Albeit, we lost all of the keys to fallout along the way, though this is something that should be fairly easily repaired. On our end of having a new place, the loft is really starting to shape up. Meagan finished painting our bedroom yesterday after I did a spot of edging for her, and we're down to 1 remaining cardboard box to unpack. Given, the closet and storage closet could probably use some work, but I think that's true even if you've lived in a given location for years. OK, time to go finish getting ready, the week awaits.

24 August 2010, 11:53 PM
It's late, and I'm tired, but I haven't posted in a while so I figured I would. Grad school is in full swing and going well. I'm continuing on in the same lab that I've been in (West lab), and I'll be rotating through the Roberson lab during the winter term. The house we were going to buy fell through, but we're excited about the loft we found 3 days after hearing the bad news on the house, then moved into the day after we saw it. It was nice because normally we would have had to have gone through a background check and all that jazz, but the owner of the building knew Meagan's father so she expedited the process for us. We're pretty much moved in fully. Meagan posted some photos on Facebook for those who are interested. We have places to sit and work, a kitchen full of food, and mostly just unessential boxes left to unpack that could probably be thrown out as is, but we'll sort through them just in case. We'll probably have several of those moments where we say, "Ohhhhhh..... that's where that was all this time, I was looking for that everywhere... 2 years ago...." I can bike to school/lab every day which is very nice, as I don't have to deal with UAB's awful parking situation. Meagan really doesn't have to either, as David was kind enough to provide us with stickers so that we can park in his lot in five points. That's about it for now. Nothing too terribly exciting is going on in our lives at the moment, but we're busy and enjoying every day together. It's nice to be in Birmingham so that we're never too far from our families either. I suppose I'll go on to bed now. Tomorrow keeps comin' at the same speed...

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