Life is a merry-go-round
First of all, some minor adjustments to the recent spate of good news. Jonathan, because he has never taken any French in his life, is going to have to forego the Christianity in Britain course that he was selected to participate in during Jan Term 2007 so that he can take French 130 - a French immersion class. He's bummed, since the professor for the CiB class is Keith Beebe - a really amazing prof the kids all really like, and also because he was hoping to just go right from the CiB class into the France Study Program, with a few days on his own between sessions. But he's okay with the situation, since the FSP was the program he really wanted to do more than anything. Also, because he will be in France for a semester earning credits he really doesn't need for graduation (he's fulfilled them all except the communications requirement), there's a good possibility he will not graduate in May 2008. It may be possible if he can take some summer classes or some May term classes, but he will probably end up taking a couple of computer science or physics classes during the Fall of 2008 in order to graduate. It's worth it, though, in order to have the experience he will have during his semester in France. Today he registers for Fall semester classes. He has to take French 101 and French Civ in order to go to France. He'll also be taking two computer science classes, and either physics or Core 250 (a western civ sort of class), and also newspaper, so he'll have a busy, 17 credit schedule. He's getting to the point where most of what he takes will be those required by his major now - computer science, physics, and math classes - as opposed to general ed classes, with the exception of the Core classes (he has to take 250 and 350 yet).
On another note, we were hoping to maybe coordinate a week's vacation to coincide with the week he'll have off next March, so he could show us the sights in Paris. Alas, since my husband and his coworkers have to bid their vacations a year in advance, and the bidding period just ended before we knew about Jonathan going to France, the week in question is taken, as is every week in March, April, and May. We could probably go in February, and may do that, but we have some pondering to do before making that decision. I guess we'll wait to see how our upcoming trip goes.
Speaking of upcoming trips, it's only 25 days away! I can hardly believe it's so close! I also can't believe I am still so far from my weight loss goal! I am really going to have to step up my efforts if I want to get close to achieving my goal. We had a scare yesterday. My husband was notified, along with all the other couriers, that they needed 10 people to work on Saturday, May 13 - the day before Mother's Day - so everyone should plan on working. Well, we leave that day. No way he can work. He told his boss that we were flying out that day so he couldn't work and her reply was "well, then you'd better sign up for a Saturday between now and then so you're off the draft list". Every Saturday between now and then is already fully staffed. Thankfully, other couriers know we've been planning this trip for a year and were not going to let this be a problem. Ten of them volunteered to work, so he doesn't have to worry about being drafted. Phew!
Easter was great. We had the whole gang over (all the kids, grandkids), had a great brunch (I made ham), and the kids hunted for eggs Jonathan and I had hidden. The weather held, though they had predicted snow. It was a great day, especially when one paused to remember what it was we were celebrating.
Work is so busy today that I have to end now and get busy. More later, I promise. Oh, Jonathan has many photos published in his school paper. Some are here: Mac Hall in Concert, though wrongly attributed to Kyle Bisch, and also here: WhitPics. He got to use the school's new digital SLR setup, a Nikon D70s and some amazing lenses, and had a great time taking the photos.
Boo hoo... I just checked JoAnn's blog...and it's no longer. She warned me she was probably going to stop blogging, and I understand her reasons for doing so, but it makes me sad. Time to delete the link to it in my blog. (sniffle, sniffle) Well, in the words of Porky Pig - th-th-th-that's all, folks!
