it's always crazy in academia

how the heck did three weeks of my summer go by??? okay, so work has been extremely busy. it's been good though. i did my first interview ever yesterday. yay me. i got stuck in a horrible rain/hail storm on the way there and had to pull over to the side of I-91. it was fabulous. i've been reading a book that will probably be hugely influential in my own work about family and work. i have another interview schedule tomorrow. hopefully without the raging storm, but it's been very stormy up here in the last week, so i might still get stuck on the side of I-91 hating the rain, thunder, lightning and big-rig trucks who drive 55 when they should pull over too.

i did however, in all this craziness, take a break to spend some time with some aquatic mammals. dustin, laura and i drove out to gloucester, ma for whale-watching last sunday. it was so great. (if you have seen pics yet, click here) the humpbacks come up to the area in the late spring/early summer to eat and they eat for about 6 months before heading down south where they fast for about 5-6 months. pretty cool huh? we drove down from there to salem for dinner and then headed back to our little homes in western mass.

anyway, i'm playing texas hold'em this friday with laura, dustin, and mj. good times. too bad they don't sell yeungling up here. i hope to somehow enjoy my weekend perhaps with a little more photography :-).