Wisconsin Here I Come!

Well do you do folks? This chica is now 1/4 of the way done with her graduate career!! That is, for this degree anyways :)  Can't really complain - exams were easy peasy, classes a joke, and research messing up my sleep schedule! Haha, just kidding - I love my research so I will gladly wake up at odd hours to drive Highway 64 for 116 miles!!  BEST NEWS EVER!! I finally finished collecting this year's data. After running 172 aflatoxin and fumonisin toxin assays, running a few more because of my fabulous human error, and making more dilutions than I wanted...I have a beautiful excel spread sheet.

Tomorrow at 2:30 I will no longer be in NC. I will be on my way to Wisconsin. Dad and Kiddo will be at Milwaukee to pick me up! As I already told Kiddo - you better have my real winter jacket and the truck like a sauna because we all know it's not bitterly cold in Raleigh! Oh, and they better bring Annie along because I miss my dog more than anything. So now comes the fun part, figuring out what I need to bring with me to Wisconsin...yay!

Tonight I'm going climbing again and by climbing I mean doing one or two climbs and then belaying because my hands are torn to bits. I went climbing for the past three days, have been working on some cool traverse bouldering problems, a few overhangs, and that darn 5.11 I'm still projecting!!  Tonight, my dear ones, is the night I send that 5.11 and put that one behind me!

So yup, that's that. I'm going to go into research and make sure everything looks how it should before I start the fabulous chore of packing!! Bye for now.