Yeah... that's my girlfriend in the sexy black dress plucking the bouquet out of the air at my cousin's wedding. Ehhh... maybe she is hinting at something. ;-)Congratulations Matt and Emily, I wish you many happy years to come in married life.
July 8, 2008
Hmmmm... maybe I should consider shopping for a ring.
Yeah... that's my girlfriend in the sexy black dress plucking the bouquet out of the air at my cousin's wedding. Ehhh... maybe she is hinting at something. ;-)Congratulations Matt and Emily, I wish you many happy years to come in married life.
July 4, 2008
There's no better way to celebrate yourr nation's independence than by blowing up a small part of it! (With fireworks of course)
So I am averaging about one post per month. Those stats are not so good! I have had some requests from friends to keep posting the random adventures and experiences we have been having. With the summer months upon us, my continued training for the marathon and my new job it's hard to find time to write.
Recently I had to say goodbye to my friends Erin and Tim who left Rochester to search for jobs in Boston. I wish them the best luck in that. Now I have more reason than ever to post since a few more friends are now out of town.
Today I just want to wish everyone a happy Independence day and encourage you all to reflect upon the great country that our courageous founding fathers have created 232 years ago today. I certainly hope you don't take on the unamerican attitude of this bastard who to my amazement published this article in a Philadelphia newspaper.
Sorry about that... I just had to inject some of my recent inner rage.
Recently I had to say goodbye to my friends Erin and Tim who left Rochester to search for jobs in Boston. I wish them the best luck in that. Now I have more reason than ever to post since a few more friends are now out of town.
Today I just want to wish everyone a happy Independence day and encourage you all to reflect upon the great country that our courageous founding fathers have created 232 years ago today. I certainly hope you don't take on the unamerican attitude of this bastard who to my amazement published this article in a Philadelphia newspaper.
Sorry about that... I just had to inject some of my recent inner rage.
June 4, 2008
Speaking of running!
I started training for my first marathon today!
Now that I have finally run my first race of the running season, I have some baseline to establish my training schedule off of. Things started with a simple 5 mile tempo run. :-)
The marathon I am planning on running is the Preferred Care Rochester Marathon.
In other news, my new job is still rather slow. I have not been assigned any projects for me to take off with. I feel like I am still just trying to prove my self and demonstrate that I have all the skills to take on responsibility. I have not screwed up... yet.
Nonetheless... life is good.
Now that I have finally run my first race of the running season, I have some baseline to establish my training schedule off of. Things started with a simple 5 mile tempo run. :-)
The marathon I am planning on running is the Preferred Care Rochester Marathon.
In other news, my new job is still rather slow. I have not been assigned any projects for me to take off with. I feel like I am still just trying to prove my self and demonstrate that I have all the skills to take on responsibility. I have not screwed up... yet.
Nonetheless... life is good.
May 26, 2008
It's been a long time running
It's been quite a while since I have sat down and wrote anything meaningful here. There is good reason for that.
The month of May has been incredibly busy for me. In that time, Emily has graduated from Nazareth, Jeremy (my brother) has graduated from Cazenovia and I graduated from RIT (just this past Friday). That's three consecutive weekends of graduations and travels for me!
All three experiences were very special to me. It was a great feeling to see Emily and Jeremy walk across that stage to get their diplomas. I am incredibly proud of them both. My graduation was quite an experience as well. I was very thankful to have my grandparents there. In addition to the congratulations extended to me, my commencement was a great opportunity to express my thanks for the hard work from all the professors that I had the opportunity to work with and the friends and family that supported me throughout the whole process.
I also started my job with Johnson and Johnson. The job is enjoyable so far. All I have done in the first few weeks are read training documents (a rather boring process). This week however I am done with my training and will be starting to work in the lab doing more hands-on activities.
So as you can see, the past few months have been busy for me. Now that things are calming down, life should be much less stressful and enjoyable.
I will keep you posted!
The month of May has been incredibly busy for me. In that time, Emily has graduated from Nazareth, Jeremy (my brother) has graduated from Cazenovia and I graduated from RIT (just this past Friday). That's three consecutive weekends of graduations and travels for me!
All three experiences were very special to me. It was a great feeling to see Emily and Jeremy walk across that stage to get their diplomas. I am incredibly proud of them both. My graduation was quite an experience as well. I was very thankful to have my grandparents there. In addition to the congratulations extended to me, my commencement was a great opportunity to express my thanks for the hard work from all the professors that I had the opportunity to work with and the friends and family that supported me throughout the whole process.
I also started my job with Johnson and Johnson. The job is enjoyable so far. All I have done in the first few weeks are read training documents (a rather boring process). This week however I am done with my training and will be starting to work in the lab doing more hands-on activities.
So as you can see, the past few months have been busy for me. Now that things are calming down, life should be much less stressful and enjoyable.
I will keep you posted!
May 20, 2008
As promised... New Orleans from my lens.
I promised... here is a recap of my trip to New Orleans in photo form!
Upon landing at Louis Armstrong International Airport, the A.C.S. aranged for this band of musicians playing "When the Saints go Marching In" and other popular New Orleans style jazz songs for all the arriving chemists.
Sidd and I stayed at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel. Located right on the corner of Canal and Bourbon Street.
Apparently hotel rooms in New Orleans come with their own beads! Beads are everywhere in the French Quarter. It's not just a Mardi Gras thing!
The French Quarter is in great shape considering how badly damaged the city was from hurricane Katrina. However in the rest of the city there are numerous hotels, strip-malls and plazas under construction or awaiting construction. This is what appears to be a multi-story office building with all the windows blown out awaiting renovation. This is just outside the French quarter... and you can tell that the neighborhood quickly turns a bit more dangerous in those areas!
Here's the River Walk along the banks of the Mississippi River. It was pretty unique to see such a busy port city like New Orleans at work. Huge ships were constantly traveling up and down the river.
On Tuesday I had the opportunity to get together with my former professors from Nazareth at Cafe Beignet. It was here where I had my first experience eating beignets!
I took a break to visit the National World War II Museum.
And Sidd and I enjoyed more beignets at Cafe Dumond.
We also presented posters and gave talks at the conference... it was not all eating great food, listening to good music and having fun!
Upon landing at Louis Armstrong International Airport, the A.C.S. aranged for this band of musicians playing "When the Saints go Marching In" and other popular New Orleans style jazz songs for all the arriving chemists.
Sidd and I stayed at the Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel. Located right on the corner of Canal and Bourbon Street.
Apparently hotel rooms in New Orleans come with their own beads! Beads are everywhere in the French Quarter. It's not just a Mardi Gras thing!
The French Quarter is in great shape considering how badly damaged the city was from hurricane Katrina. However in the rest of the city there are numerous hotels, strip-malls and plazas under construction or awaiting construction. This is what appears to be a multi-story office building with all the windows blown out awaiting renovation. This is just outside the French quarter... and you can tell that the neighborhood quickly turns a bit more dangerous in those areas!
Here's the River Walk along the banks of the Mississippi River. It was pretty unique to see such a busy port city like New Orleans at work. Huge ships were constantly traveling up and down the river.
On Tuesday I had the opportunity to get together with my former professors from Nazareth at Cafe Beignet. It was here where I had my first experience eating beignets!
I took a break to visit the National World War II Museum.
And Sidd and I enjoyed more beignets at Cafe Dumond.
We also presented posters and gave talks at the conference... it was not all eating great food, listening to good music and having fun!
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