[check] and [check]

The thesis... is done! Well, sort of- I need to add a couple things before I defend it. But it's done enough for the department!

Incidently, I'm finally published! Take a gander if you'd like. It should be printed in the journal next month. I tell ya, it's so exciting to see my name on there. Of course, my professor submitted my nickname rather than Kathryn. How... informal. I'm not surprised. We should be trying to publish all the data that's in my thesis, as well. I'm famous!

Hmm, I think now I'll catch up on today and yesterday's newspaper. I'm a tad behind. And then, I think I'll sleep.

Upcoming

Thesis is due on Tuesday.

I will come back to life shortly after thesis submission.

Thank you.

Whackadoozy Week

1) I needed to make some mouse sipper tubes, which involves slicing some plastic pipettes with a hot razor blade. You guessed it, I wasn't paying attention and grabbed the blazin' blade and gave myself a nice couple of burns. But it didn't hurt much after the first hour and now it's such a weird feeling to not feel anything on the dead patches of skin. Wait, is it a feeling to "not feel?" ...I'll get back to you on that.

2) On Wednesday, a lady in my department told me I had to finish my thesis by March 24. Understand that A) I thought I had until March 31 and B) I still had two weeks of data to still gather, and you can imagine my flip-out session. But, lo and behold, after making approximately 805 calls, I discovered that the lady was wrong and I DO have until the end of the month. I think a week of my life was lost in the process.

3) On the same day, I got whacked with some sort of cold/allergy concoction. I went from slightly sniffly to a nose-dripping sneezer in about five minutes. It's going away now but last night it again metamorphosed into a nice cough that woke Sean up a zillion times (though I usually only woke up after he asked me if I was okay. Weird, no?). And, ha, Sean got me a water bottle in the middle of the night to ease the throat and I must have fallen asleep mid sip because I again awoke to a big puddle beside my shoulder. Ick!

4) Since it's crunch time for my thesis, I have to do lab work today, tomorrow and next weekend. Boo.

5) I forgot to fill out a bracket before all the basketball games started. Now it's no fun! And BYU lost. What a surprise...

6) Good things:

• We had my old roomie, Jenna, and her husband, Chris, over for dinner and fun. I love that girl, it's always fun to talk and laugh with her. We played some games too: The Celestial Companions Game and Fact or Crap. Mom, don't get mad that I wrote the word "crap," okay?They made for a good time. Alas, I had too much fun to remember to take pictures.
• LOST and The Office are continuing the magnificence that is their current seasons.
• Sean continues his reign as best husband ever.

Let's end with another joke:

What's brown and sticky?

A Stick.

Love it.

Green

I knew you'd come through. Not only did Adele leave me a wonderfully cheesy tulip joke (see previous post's comments) but my ol' buddy Jessica provided me with an instant classic:

What do A's and tulips have in common?

Ponder that for a few moments and we'll come back to the hilarious answer!

First, let's revist one of those tulip pictures...

Let's compare the original photo I took to this end product after being subjected to some boosts in Photoshop, as shown in the previous post. Ugh, the original always looks like crud in retrospect.

This here version followed a tutorial to look like watercolor. It works for that other tulip picture I posted, but not so much this one.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I think this version's the winner, ha ha!

And now you're dying to know.... What do A's and tulips have in common?

They both have B's coming after them!