accomplishments

Today has been a good day. I accomplished two things, and I wore SANDALS!! It was nearly 60F today, and now that we've had DST it doesn't get dark until 8 or so, and I have decided I love seasons.

The two things I accomplished:

1) I got IRAF to play nice. (I met with the astronomy professor and I learned about how to do photometry with PSF fitting, and it appears we were able to fix a couple of the problems I was having with IRAF in general.)

2) I printed a sheet of color photos on photo paper. (So that Mike can have an ID when he's in Russia.) Imagine a world without Kinko's and where no one owns a printer and you'll get a rough idea of just how accomplished this made me feel.

Also I bought COLD vanilla coke (harder than it sounds) today and am going to go eat dinner as soon as I finish this so that I don't forget and it doesn't wind up being 10pm and I'm hungry.

In yesterday's accomplishments, I Skyped Mike in Ukraine! (Technically I used Skype to call Catherine's cell phone - she's in the Peace Corp and he's visiting her as part of his tour de Europe.) But he is alive and well and jet lagged and in Kremenchuk for another day, then back to Kiev, then on to Amsterdam, then to Moscow!!

I haven't written much lately because not much exciting has been happening...I've been going to class and doing homework and running errands and sorting out room draw and picking classes for next semester at Mudd and spending too much time on facebook. That about sums it up. I am VERY EXCITED for one week from today! It's going to be such fun showing Mike my life in Russia. :) Until then, onward and upward...