Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Happy Anniversary!

Today is a very special day for two of our favorite relatives - it's Davin and Jen's 14th Wedding Anniversary! Congratulations! You can check out their blog in the list of links to the right.

Yes, yes, I know...

I [Alicia] have been told (repeatedly) that we need to update our blog. Me aculpa, me aculpa. We've been a little busy with school and work what with mid-terms and loads of homework and personal projects and thus the delay in our attention to the blog. This is an even tougher semester for Brian and he is working hard on his constant responsibilities for the classes he teaches and trying to stay afloat with all the homework and quizzes and tests (He's lately been preparing for mid-terms in Quantum Mechanics and Statistical Mechanics.). I, with my one little class, have been kept busy with preparing for a mid-term last week that ended up being much easier than expected. I got a 56/60! :-) We also had a take home essay portion and I hope to receive full credit on that portion of the test resulting in an A for the mid-term. I could have and should have done better on the in-class portion, but I am grateful for the chance to test my knowledge and learn where I have room to grow. For the take home portion, I wrote a 2,000-plus word essay on Orientalism. It's a very interesting perspective about how the West views the "Orient" and its impact on foreign policy and popular opinion and attitudes during the post-colonial periods in Europe (specifically in France and England) and later in the U.S., and the resulting impact on today's popular perspectives of the Middle East in particular as arising out of an Orientalist perspective.
On a lighter note, the weather here is quite nice. Everything is blooming and it has been lovely. We've spent a few afternoons studying outdoors (I wish we had a camera so I could share some of the lovely blooming trees. One of my plants that blooms tiny little rose-like blossoms has been growing wonderfully and producing adorable little flowers. However, we (and by "we" I really mean mostly me) have to watch the fact that I sunburn easily - one afternoon of studying resulted in patches of sunburn on my left leg and my arms. :-( We just had a cold front roll through and temps dipped down into the 60s! Imagine - and they just had 4-5 inches of snow in Colorado! I think we had about a week of Winter down here. I am not complaining one way or the other, but I do miss the snow. Well, it is time to go eat...that's all for now.