The weekend has come and gone, and it is a Monday once again. Thankfully, this Monday finds me at home working. It'll be one of those weird weeks again. Home on Monday, CTLT on Tuesday, Coal City workshop on Wednesday, CTLT on Thursday and Friday. I like having my Fridays at home to work, but I'll adjust I suppose. Weeks like these just make it more difficult to get things done on the diss.
I do feel good that I did send another revision of my Methodology chapter on to my director. That makes the 5th draft of that beast. Hopefully, this one is getting closer to being ready. I'm analyzing data for the second part of my Results chapter and am still waiting to get any feedback on my first half. I don't think I'm going to make my goal of having a draft of every chapter by the end of the semester.
I guess I had a nice weekend. I had to go grocery shopping on Sat. Man, what a chore! That is certainly not my favorite activity. I'm trying to shop less, so I've taken to making out a menu at least a week in advance to cut down on the trips to the store (and also so Ken knows what to make on the nights I come home late). The best part about Saturday was that Matt & Lisa came to the Bollingbrook area to do some shopping and we got together that night for dinner. We ate at a Mongolian BBQ place, which was wonderful! We have to try out those places while Ken is gone because he wouldn't like eating there. It was a quick visit, but we had a lot of laughs as usual.
Not much else new. I need to get started on some work this morning. More later.
3 comments:
So what do you think of commuting on the train, Marci?
I'm thinking about maybe doing something similar next year. Except my commute would be super long--over the mountains to Seattle--and perhaps not viable at all. But I can dream...
I just thought I'd get your take on it.
Brad
Hey Brad! Thanks for posting. The train isn't bad at all, really. It does have it's benefits: 1) I don't have to drive and 2) I can sleep or do work while riding. It's also nice to just kind of check out and listen to a book on tape or music while watching the scenery pass by.
The thing I like least about the train is the time it takes on the return trip home. The northbound Amtrak is always at least 20 minutes late and sometimes as long as 40 minutes late. This makes for a long day when I get on the train at 7 am and don't get home until 8 or 8:30 pm.
Overall, if I am going to commute, I don't mind it. How long would your ride ot Seattle take?
Marcy
Hi Marcy,
So I checked it out a little more thoroughly, and I don't think it's going to work. It looks like it would take about 4 hours by train from Wenatchee to downtown Seattle. I'm not sure I'm up for that three days a week (or more). :)
There's a really fun job at UW that I'm looking at. I was hoping that things might work out so that we wouldn't have to move, but it looks like we would need to move to the West side of the mountains for it to be feasible.
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