I've neglected the blog for a couple of weeks. I have no excuse...my life has been pretty relaxed the past couple of weeks. Lets do a quick rundown:
Finished up my first year of doctoral studies. It was a grueling year...very busy, very hard work, very incredible. I have a much stronger grasp on the sport science material and feel very comfortable with my growth over the year as both a student and a teacher. I was a teaching fellow for 4 classes - 3 undergraduate classes and 1 graduate class. I've been asked to serve as a teaching fellow for 1 graduate class this summer and 3 undergraduate classes next year. I also start a new job tomorrow at BU's School of Education where I'll be finding grants for faculty in the school. I am taking summer courses - the Psychology of Excellence, Positive Psychology, and Group Therapy - during the first summer term. I'll have a very busy June and July.
Brad finishes teaching toward the end of June. He then has a 1 week workshop through the school and, a couple of weeks later, a 2 week workshop at Amherst College. He is really excited about the 2 week workshop through Amherst College, which, for those of you who don't know, is an elite, private college in Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top 3 private colleges in the country. Side note: it is from where our good friend, Katie, graduated back in 2001.
August is our fun month. I'll work for the first couple of weeks. Then, we have a wedding in Philadelphia - Brad's cousin. We'll fly/drive/something from the wedding in Philly to Michigan to visit our families. Then, the following week, we'll head from Michigan to Hawaii for 8 days for Sloan and Drew's wedding. We rented a 2 bedroom cottage with Bruce and Christy and are so excited for this vacation.
As for the past 2 weeks, we've worked hard, played hard! Last week (or maybe the week before, I don't quite remember), we went to Helmand's in Cambridge for Afghan food with Bruce and Christy. This restaurant has the best eggplant I've ever eaten. The following day, we had a live jazz brunch with Bruce, Christy, Sloan and Drew. I had a heaping pile of pancakes smothered with blackberry sauce. Yum. Brad had a ton of meat, as usual. This past weekend, we met up with a few friends for a drink at the Cheesecake Factory in Boston before hopping a cab over to Cambridge to eat at Cuchi, Cuchi, a fantasticly weird restaurant with incredible drinks and crazy leather-wearing waitresses with lip rings and bright red lipstick. We drank and drank (a little too much) and ate plates and plates of Tapas. Then, today, Brad and I both worked the food and alcohol out of our system this morning with some heavy duty exercising and then we headed down to Fenway (fighting the Red Sox crowd) to see Baby Mama with Sloan and Drew. Wicked great movie! Hilarious. Then we walked around Boston until the rain pushed us onto the train back to Coolidge Corner.
It is now 9:40 on Sunday night. We're settling down for a relaxing evening of book reading. Brad is almost done with his most recent read, a ridiculously long Norman Mailer book - The Naked and the Dead, and I'm double fisting with Suite Francaise and Playing with the Boys: Why Separate is Not Equal in Sports. Ah, what a life. Among our dinner outings and summer planning, I managed to paint about 1/3 of the condo this weekend. I'm planning to finish the rest of the place by the end of the week.
Until the next entry...
