Vacation

Friday July 28th was officialy the last day of the term. Finals were on Monday and Tuesday last week, grading and writing final grade reports took all day Wednesday, and the graduation ceremony for students who had successfully completed Level 6 was held on Friday.

Now I'm on vacation until August 22nd! What's in store? First, I'm going to spend 5 days at my parents' house. Tomorrow (Wednesday) I fly up to Minneapolis, my parents will pick me up at the airport, and we'll go back to their place. I expect my mom and I will spend a lot of time in the next few days discussing plans for another trip to England. :)

Then on Saturday Gus will fly up to the Twin Cities to spend a couple days with my family. Monday I fly back here while Gus heads over to his brother's place. He and Vince will drive to Indianapolis for GenCon for the remainder of the week. Next week he'll spend a few days with his family, and then fly back here on the 17th.

While he's gone, my plans are to re-vamp my thesis and submit it to a professional journal for publication. I have no idea if they'll be interested in it, but it's worth a try. If I do get published, it would look very good on my resumé!

That's all the news from Texas, where the sun is scorching and the ground is parched.