in DC until Thursday. barely made it in today, snowstorm hit syracuse at 3 pm, caught an early flight to make sure i made it out. meeting at the pentagon tomorrow, with my luck they'll cancel it. i won't be all sad, it's nice to just travel, as unexciting a location as it is.

read Scientific American on the plane today, which tried to explain the big bang theory to us lay-men types. still don't fully understand it, though everytime i hear another person explain it i get a little more clear on it all. i think i decided part of the obesity problem in America can be explained by the expanding universe thing; it's stretching americans as well. not quite sure why europe and the rest of the world are unaffected by this problem, perhaps the US is in its own world?

dinner alone at a restaurant. is there any greater feeling of freedom than being alone in a situation that you *should* be with others? i used to find this depressing, now i find it liberating. perhaps it's because now i know i'm only alone in the restaurant, not alone in the world.

had to rename the blog. it was something that sounded good three years ago when i created this, but doesn't really sound as good floating around in the world. this is from a patty griffin song i've been stuck on for the past two weeks. saw a performance of her on PBS from Austin City Limits, phenomenal. i love when you see someone sing and they look nothing like you expected. her voice is so intense i imagined she would look intense when she sang it, but not so. it looks so effortless coming out of her. anyway, i'm sure the name will change again soon.

also playing with the color scheme a bit... no one wants to hear about this, but if you object to my color rendering just know it's in the works.

time to jump on the blogging bandwagon, only for real this time. no more of this half-assed blog-wannabe crap. maybe if i start doing this i won't have to repeat myself so much in e-mails.

so i'll start with a quick update and go from there. i am back from bosnia, no longer in grave danger from bosnian aggression. but i am back in syracuse, so my life expectancy has probably dropped by 10 years. i found out today that the we are offically one block into the ghetto; it supposedly starts at the 690 overpass.

party tonight... place will be a mess tomorrow morning, and i will feel like an inadequate house-wife type because it will probably stay that way for a week or more. cake tasting tomorrow (see paragraph regarding impending doom/marriage.)

dog is good. vito. he never got used to wearing his booties though, and is stuck inside more than he would like.

getting out of the air force in june, looking to go to graduate school next fall. hoping to become a stable isotope geochemist (doesn't that just sound so cool?) haven't gotten accepted yet, though, and i'm well past the deadline for admission so we'll see how it goes.

and lastly, getting married this summer. june 25th to be precise. big summer approaching. i will be a wife soon. that sounds absolutely petrifying...

okay. enough of the broad overview. i will start here and hopefully become more reliable. i am a total computer geek in all other ways, not sure why i haven't become addicted to blogs yet. trying really hard though.