Last week was the end of an increasingly busy time at work, culminating in a very hectic Thursday, when I gave exams in all my classes. However, once I was already giving the exams, I could basically imagine it was already the weekend and could mentally relax ( Read more... )

This trip to Buffalo was a great change of pace from the previous trips, namely that it was fairly unstressful. No talks to give, and I had gotten big chunks of work done beforehand and I didn't have anything major to do when I returned. As mentioned before, Thursday was a bizarre wash due to being so tired, while on Friday we hosted a birthday ( Read more... )

I'm in Buffalo for the long holiday weekend, which is one I haven't had off for since high school. I guess that's one of the side effects of working at a Jesuit university. I am happy to have the opportunity to come up to see Christian, though ( Read more... )

Finally, some rest and relief. My Spring Break was March 7-15 and Christian's was the following week, March 14-22. So we had the chance to spend two weeks together. It was really nice seeing him for so long ( Read more... )

We're in Buffalo this week visiting family. All I've heard about recently, however, is how the National Scrabble Championship happened here this summer. I haven't been playing for over a year, so I had no idea, nor had I known that the reigning Scrabble champ had finally gotten toppled. So now I finally read an article about it and get floored when ( Read more... )

We had a pretty enjoyable 9 days in Buffalo. We got to see most of Christian's family and also Peter and Nicole (aquinasprime). Nicole once again made her three-layer cookies that are to die for. Getting to talk to everyone was a lot of fun and I got to play some games that I hadn't played in a long time: spades, chess, Risk, and even Apples to Apples, which I ( Read more... )

So, time to catch up on everything from the past month. In mid-July we went to Buffalo for a week to visit Christian's family. This was only the second time we've gotten to see Christian's new niece, who has grown remarkably. We also got to see his aunt and uncle's new house on Lake Erie. Our reaction was similar to everyone else's: we couldn't ( Read more... )

Our stay in Buffalo was far more low-key than usual. We only had a couple planned dinners with people since it's not the holidays so everyone was busy during the week. We did get to see Christian's new niece twice, and his grandfather, and Peter and Nicole (aquinasprime), so that was nice. We also got haircuts and sponge candy. I actually got a fair amount of ( Read more... )

We're in Buffalo for my Spring Break to see Christian's new niece. It's snowing pretty heavily outside. It seems this winter does not want to let up.

Woke up this morning with the snow halfway up the house to the windows! According to wunderground, towns nearby got 10-12 inches and that's on top of the 3-4 inches or so that was still left over from Friday when we arrived. There's still some light snow falling. Today a little more is supposed to fall, as well as tomorrow and Saturday, when we ( Read more... )