Re: WA-HOO!!!

Hi--

I haven't posted anything for a while so I thought now would be a good time.

Congratulations to Jeff for being GoH at CopperCon--I've been to a couplle of CopperCons long ago and I remember enjoying them. There are (or were) some good filkers in Phoenix. Also that convention is late enough that you won't boil if you try to walk across the street--the temperature is down around 95 or cooler instead of in the hundreds like in the summer.

Kitt--good luck on the house-buying front! Been there, done that about three years ago. I think that process taught me more aboutmy husband than any other thing we've done. It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you buy a house. Like (for me, anyway) there was tons of stuff I was willing to live with as long as I was living in rented places (back in college) but when it was my own sizable downpayment on the line, I suddenly experienced a great shift in priorities. There's somehow a permanence about buying your own house that can be daunting--or was for me anyway.

I too have experienced a shortage of filk because there isn't a spring convention that isn't on Easter that I can get to 9the one in Olympia typically falls some awful time like finals week or something; I've managed to miss it both years. So I'm hoping for a filk sometime this summer.

I have been accepted into a Ph.D. program in the botany department at UW, and been given a research assistantship to boot. So I will move to a new lab this summer and begin work with a new advisor who is doing molecular biology. I never thought when I memorized the Calvin cycle in beginning biology that I might spend five years of mylife on it, but that'smy advisor's big thing so it will become, by definition, mine.

However, my e-mail address stays the same (even my student number hasn't changed) so the only difference from the outside will be less time to filk (aaagh!) and maybe money to go to conventions since my husband works--assuming I don't sink all my stipend money into journals, books, supplies, and other foolish things.

I also, somewhat ironically may wind up TA-ing the one biology class I hated most---but that's another story.

Take care, everyone and have a great day

Anne Received on 06/04/98