Something I've been wanting to start. A short blurb about what each of us are up to so I can remember when I'm going through past posts.
I'm currently the Relief Society accompanist in our ward, a calling I've had since I think the beginning of this year. I'm still working as a research assistant for one of my professors in the dendrochronology lab (Dendro = tree, and chrono = time. Dendrochronology is the study of tree rings and all the environmental/climatic factors that they can tell us about from the past. In the lab we study trees that are up to 1,200 years old and use them to reconstruct the climate and precipitation patterns of northern Utah.) I can't believe it's been a year and a half since I started. I'm now senior RA with my own team. Lately Dr. B has hired four new RAs and I've been training two of them to sand and cross date cores. We've been focusing on Tanner Ridge, a site up in Spanish Fork Canyon/Diamond Fork Canyon. I've got a good team and they're catching on quickly. [: I'm also a TA and grader for Dr. B's 303 class, Biogeography. Awesome class. I really enjoyed it when I took it. Grading is HARD though. It took me a week to grade the first midterm. I sweated over being too easy or too hard on them. But now I'm a pro. And lastly, I'm the supervisor of the BYU weather station. I've been there for a year and a half, too. That time blew by. I'll be graduating in December and am looking for jobs in my spare time.
Ryan is a Sunday School class president in our ward. Perfect for him. He loves to talk with people and get to know them. His job at SkyRocket Media is going great, and he's so good at what he does. While I do homework in the evening he practices his Dutch, reads his latest book Naked Economics, keeps up on his nerdy shows (currently Gotham and Agent of Shield), and listens to NPR and especially his latest addiction, a nonfiction murder mystery podcast called Serial. [: He still does most of the cooking and I pinch myself that I found a guy like him every night.
We recently started watching The War, Kevin Burns' documentary on WWII, as well as Battlestar Galactica, which I've never watched before. We still go to Art City Trolley about twice a month and just found an awesome Mongolian grill in Spanish Fork that I think we'll start to frequent as well. It's amazinggg.
Life is good.
