Gotta Love San Francisco!

Hola!

I just presented my poster today at the AGU (American Geophysical Union) 2007 Fall meeting here in San Francisco. Sara Jane and her fam her nice enough to give me a place to stay for the week (and threw in a few meals to boot, best meatballs EVER!) And we got some good wedding stuff in (being fitted for my bridesmaid dress, seeing Wente where the ceremony/reception will take place...etc..) which made me super excited for when Sara and Mike get married and (of course, I'm female!) makes me think about what I would want when/if I decide to get married. Its fun stuff to think about : o) But the conference was very interesting, I got to go to some good talks. Luckily the BART station is nearby and I can take it here from Sara Jane's house (east bay) to Powell street which is two blocks away from where I need to be. I've decided that I totally love taking the train and wouldn't mind living in the city/commuting etc. Sara Jane wants to convince me to move up here (seriously considering it, USGS is in Menlo Park...) and Jared seems like he wouldnt mind so long as we lived in some rural place that didn't have too many people, which I could deal with. I absolutely love how cold it is up here (compared to Bako, at least, Utah is colder, but I don't know if I can handle the snow...) at least cold enough so that I dont look crazy wearing my hats, scarves and my new crazy Bob Cratchit gloves : o) It'll be nice to finally move away from Bako (time to finish that thesis!) All in all my poster was well received. Dr. Loewy was there and got a couple snapshots of my talking about my awesome poster. I definitely got some good input at the very least. Dr. Nicholson said that most posters get about three people interested enough to stop by and I probably pulled a crowd of about 20. Sweet! And I got to meet this really cool old guy who apparently was one of the founding fathers of plate tectonics, although I can't remember his name, but he was very cool! I also got to hang out at this cool irish pub called the Chieftan, which had the best burger ever. I may go back tomorrow...unless I find something better...I heard there was this really good thai place in union square...So much city left to explore and so little time. I don't know how my sister ever left!! It seems like such an exciting place to live. Anywho, I just bought the new Dane Cook CD (Gotta love Dane!) and so now I must give it a listen.

Cheers!

Procrastination

BAH! I hate how desparate I am to distract myself from work...It seems the closer I get to the end of my thesis, the longer it takes me. I guess after working a full day of making maps, constructing cross sections, data base maintence and data QC I'm just too tired to come home and do more making maps, constructing figures, QC-ing my data. I think the dog is sick of it too...she's looking at me with the...you should be playing with me right now look....hehe..Well AGU is almost here! I will be staying with Sara Jane up in Danville and commuting via BART. I've never ridden it before, so it will be exciting. Sara Jane and Mike are going to babysit me for my first Monday morning ride : o) AGU should be exciting as well, there's supposed to be alot of people there, but my poster got stuck in some session about the tectonics of the dead sea and not California tectonics where i wanted it (and it should have been) but it was kinda beyond my control. It'll be a good chance to present my work and look around the see what else is out there..maybe there is a PhD in my future yet...As long as its a fellowship....

I have been enjoying my job and getting to know everyone there. Its been a pretty fun place to work and I'm learning alot of fancy software, which is cool. I'll be officially staying at my new place tomorrow night I think since I still have to use this stupid PC to work on my thesis. I'm excited to be moving out onto my own! Well...there is the dog too...I met some of my neighbors and they seem pretty cool. Hopefully it will be a good place to live. I need a fridge though, Jared lent me this tiny one that he had been using as a beer/wine cooler. Yet more money I get to spend and not save...I can't wait for the day I'm out of debt, oh wait, that'll never happen in this country! Well..I'll make it as minimal as possible. At least I can afford to live on my own now.

Jared will be graduating soon and I'm so excited for him! Now he can find a job of his own and we can move in together...it's exciting to think about. At least I know he'll be able to come stay a while round christmas time, maybe even in time to help with the tamales!

Now to get back to work...Here's a picture of Miko since I haven't posted anything in a while:


This is what I wish I was doing...