Catching-Up

For my own benefit, when in 2, 5, or 10 years from now I come back to read my old blog entries, I would like to catch myself (and anybody else) up with a brief summary of what has transpired since I put the blog on "pause" back at the end of January.

As far as I remember, February and March were often (not always) cold and depressing. April was a big month for me as I got hired on here as a "Research Assistant" (a big step up from "barely-paid intern"), and moved out of my loving relatives' house into a group house with 3 other 20-somethings just like me. In May I went on my first "business trip," flying to Germany for a week to drink beer and work at a conference about carbon emissions trading. Before coming back from Germany, I also spent a day in Brussels hanging out with a friend of mine and two of her friends who just happened to also be in Brussels that day. Then at the end of May I went to Colorado for a week to see my little cuz graduate (congrats cuz, this should be an exciting time in your life), run the Bolder Boulder (I am pretty proud of my 61-minute time), raft in the Eagle River (beer + river rapids = fun), wash and sell my little red Acura Integra that has transported me all over Colorado since I bought it back in 2002 before graduating high school (it was a good car, I kind of miss it already), and meet up with my good college buddy for a game of putt-putt golf.

That brings us more or less to now where I am mostly just working, trying to hang out with friends when possible, watching the Obama news, etc...

This coming weekend is pretty promising though. I have been invited to a river cruise on Friday evening, followed by a fancy dinner/band evening party here on Saturday. I suspect it will be a pretty swanky shindig.