Monday Monday Monday!

Nothing too exciting this weekend...I helped mom paint her master bedroom (Temperate Taupe) and basically spent the whole weekend cleaning house. I did get over to the Theatre to see Salt, which was alright for an action movie, but I sense a franchise coming!

Geology wise...nothing new to report...its too hot to go hiking! I'm going to make Jared take me on my next Idaho trip :) I'll find something fun to see...we went to Craters of the Moon last year, which I found to be really beautiful and unique. Idaho Falls has a couple of good museums, or so they look as I haven't been to any yet. I'm most interested to go to the Museum of Natural History, because I enjoy looking at cool rocks and fossils :)

In case you're in Bakersfield, CA: There is a pretty interesting natural history museum here, the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History, which has some interesting fossils and local exhibits. When Jared and I went, we had a very nice docent who walked us through the whole museum! I forgot his name, but he was really awesome and knowledgeable :)

Anywho thats all for now!

Its a slow Thursday...

Well today is technically my Friday :) which means I will spend a majority of the day counting down the hours until I am free!! I am finally caught up on all of my high-priority work stuff which means I get to spend today working on my more entertaining projects. Entertaining for me, probably not for you :) I have to build a few cross sections and investigate some possible recompletions...should prove to be an interesting day.

No big plans for the weekend, although I wish I had the extra vacation time to go to Idaho! I miss Jared...and the cooler weather...and the clean air...and the nice views. I'm pretty sure Idaho is one of the greatest places on earth! I mean come on...look at the view from Jared's yard!

It's like a geologist paradise :) If anyone knows of any type of geology related work in Idaho, I would be most appreciative! It's been two years now and still no go. But I'll just keep on trying!

Anywho, thats my morning break for now...time to get back to work!

I guess I must have really let this thing go!

So its been about two years since my last post. Thats a long time! I'm no longer a measly geology student, but a full fledged Development Geologist with a small independent petroleum company! And I finally, finally finished my Masters Thesis (if you really want to, you can read it and let me know what you think!) Life is pretty much the same as it ever was, but I just get paid more (a lot more!) now :) I'll try to make an effort to keep this thing updated more often.

I've been having a good day today as I recently had my Petrel license upgraded. All of the features I wanted since the last few releases are now in there! I spent all afternoon making new and improved cross sections :) Thank goodness now I only have to use one well template instead of many! It makes my life so much easier when I can just hit 'apply all' and magic happens! Now I just have to venture into my 3D modeling visualizations to see what has changed over there. I am also excited about the database functionality...but thats probably enough about that!

I'll be drilling wells soon (yay!) and so I'll be quite the busy bee for the next month or so...hopefully I can get Jared to come out here to visit (or me there). If anyone is looking for cheap flights to various destinations, you should check out Allegiant Air, they had fares as low as 40 bucks each way!

Anywho, thats all I have for this afternoon and my break is now over :) Back to work!

So I guess I've gotten lazy again with this whoel blog thing...

BAH! Once you get out of the habit! Anywho...I guess things have been going pretty well...I'm set to graduate soon (YAY!) and then I will be ready to move up @ my job!! I guess that would be my biggest excuse for not maintaining this stupid thing...that whole, growing up, getting a job, livin life, being with the people you love, etc. I just dont seem to have the time anymore! That and I got a PS3...i am thinking about getting a Wii as well..but that will come later...I'm just glad that I'm finally at a point in my life when I can afford to buy a PS3 and not have to worry about going hungry for a month. Woot! So maybe I'll try to get this thing updated once in a while...Once my thesis is over and done with (writing now! hopefully wont be long!) and get settled in life, etc...maybe then I'll have more time. Although I really like being busy and such...Well..I guess not much has happened since my last update! I'm officially done with classes, so no more school...just the writing...Jared and I will be moving in together soon...May or may not be promoted at the job, we'll see how that goes...I'd really like to relocate to another city..probably Denver! Imagine me, living in snow! HA! It would be fun...Maybe in a year or two I can take the test to become a registered Californian Geologist..that would be cool..although I think I need experience first. Thats pretty much it..I'm kinda glad the computer isnt suckin as much of my time as it used to....I get alot more reading in anywho....Well...until next time...in six months (?)

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...

Bah!

Again, long time no post! I may or may not be posting again sometime, because I finally got a brand new, shiny, JOB. Yay. Its my first real job, so I'll be devoting most of my time to it. Not much else going on...spent the whole summer with my man in Utah (we've been together a whole year! yay!) and soon he'll be done with school! And I'm working on finishing my thesis (writing!) and then I'll be *almost* done. One more class in winter quarter. Oh, and I got a dog! and...thats pretty much it. I think I'm becoming an old, boring person. Sad for me...hehe maybe!