Cocktail Party

So I had a cocktail party in an attempt to get rid of my booze supply. It was lovely! People all dressed up and I made the most exquisite h'ordeurves.

No whining this time

I will only update on the positives:

• I got into Georgia Tech. Full ride. Plus funded GRA.

• I got into Texas. Still waiting to get the official acceptance letter to hear about funding.

• I got a call back interview from Apple product design. 
  
• I had an interview with UT Athletics Department for a tutoring and mentoring part-time position.
  
• I am staying involved with Tau Beta Pi after graduation and I'm on the K-12 Initiative committee. I'm going to be building a couple of robots from scratch to demo to the kids. I'll be playing with circuits and motors and soldering stuff. 
  
• Mike said I could borrow his puppy and take him for walks because he knows I need attention, even if it's from a dog.
  
• I am going to the gym almost every day (not today) and I'm at the thinnest I've been in 6 years!
  
• I submitted my fellowship application.
• I have two diplomas.

Nerdiest couple ever

Yesterday marked one year since our official first date. The official kind, where you go out to a movie and there's awkward silence and you can't stop grinning. The kind where you know you're past the point of being just friends. The kind where you know it's going to change everything.

For Christmas James got me a pair of digital calipers and for our anniversary I got him a heat gun. That's got to say something, something awesome. I'm so happy. 

And the sabbatical begins

So I graduated. Now what? I'm going to spend an extended period of time doing what normal people call "relaxing" and "having fun." Just adding those words to my vocabulary will be an accomplishment. I've started to come up with a set of goals and tasks to fill the void. My fear is that I'll have too much free time and will explode.

First and foremost are things like cleaning my room and applying for the TBP fellowship. I need to do these things as soon as possible. I also really need to finish one last lingering project from work, which I should be able to build and assemble early next week. This hinges on finding some decent scrap aluminum, which might be harder than I expected. 

The family and James and Jaclyn went to Vail. It was totally badass. As it turns out, it's really hard to build a snowman out of powder.