GRE's

I'm happy announce that I've finished my GREs and got a 500 Verbal and 590 Quantitative. It's a little above average for my major, and ought to be enough to get me into the University of Minnesota. Kelly bought me flowers today to celebrate passing my test. He's such a wonderful husband.

He still loves working with Big Horn, and we're both doing really well.

Happy Halloween!!

ARGG!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm so stressed out!! My GRE exam is tomorrow, and I've been studying my butt off, to the detriment of my other classes. I bombed a genetics exam Friday and have a weeds exam Wednesday that I haven't even started studying for. Kelly and our families are the only things keeping me sane! URG!

Minnesota Update

It looks like I might have the position. I'm taking my GRE's on the 30th and can put in my application then. If I'm accepted, I've got the job, I think. I won't be able to start classes until summer or fall semester, but I'm going to try to start working before that so I can avoid as much as I can of the November - March slump. I'll let you know whether or not I have the position for sure and when we'll be leaving. Thank you all for all your advice!

Potential Job Offer

Okay, this is really important to us and we need some help. I've pretty much made my decision, but I want to make sure I'm not doing the wrong thing.
As you all know I'm graduating with my Bachelor's in December. I really just wanted to be done with school and start on a career, but then my turf professor brought this to my attention. The University of Minnesota is trying to fill two research assistantship positions in January 2008. They will pay a yearly salary of $20,120, with full insurance and tuition covered. Basically, I can get my M.S. for free, if I'm accepted. The research will be breeding rust-resistant perennial ryegrass cultivars. Perennial rye is my favorite turf species, but I don't have any experience in breeding and I suck at complicated Genetics, as evidenced by my last exam score. Kelly thinks I have a good shot at the position and that I'll pick up the genetics stuff better when it's hands on and applicable to what I'm doing. There's also a good pre-law program for him at the University and then a few good law schools in nearby Minnesota for him to go to after he graduates.
The problem is that I didn't really want to go to anymore school and Minnesota is a very long way away from both of our families. It's a very, very good opportunity for me though. As I said, I've pretty much made my decision, but I want to know what you all think too. I'm putting up a poll for everyone, please use it, and leave me comments if you like too, just remember to tell me who you are if you sign in as anonymous. Thank you all!

Qwest is run by Nazi's!

On Monday the Nazi's at Qwest installed a new program on their employee's phones. Kelly's didn't get installed right and he spent most of Monday and Tuesday with tech support trying to get it fixed, which bombed his availability percentage. On Wednesday his boss told him he had to have it back up to 90% by Friday or he would be fired. On Thursday morning his boss told him that he could either quit or be fired on Friday and she would block unemployment. So now we have no insurance.

Luckily, Deyette and Duren came to the rescue. Kelly starts Monday working construction with Duren. We didn't take a pay cut, but still don't have insurance. I'm going to try to get insurance through the University on Monday, but I don't know if it will cover Kelly too, and it will only last until December when I graduate.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Sunday at Snowbasin

We spent Sunday up at Snowbasin to celebrate a bunch of birthdays: my Grandma Sonia, Aunt Natalie, Uncle Mark, Uncle Tom, and my Dad. There was Celtic music thing going on that was very cool. One of the players had a beautiful wooden flute that made me want to pick up mine and start practicing again.

We had four generations there from my grandma, Mom, Ryan, to Addie. She's such a sweet baby!

Meg said Addie had an upset tummy, but she hardly fussed at all and let us play "pass the baby" all afternoon.

We took a ride up to the top of the mountain on the gondola with my Aunt and Uncle. Kelly's really excited to start the ski season. We have high hopes of going to Snowbasin a few times and Beaver Mountain a lot. Any skiers or snowboarders that want to go, let us know and we'll make a day of it!

Kelly and I had a beautiful drive down. Anyone who's close enough to Sardine Canyon, take a drive this week, it's gorgeous!

I definately got a workout at work today. We were fertilizing an acre or two of turf, so I got to stand in the back of the workman (it's like a golf cart with a dump bed) and lift 50 lb bags of fertilizer from my feet to chest hieght and then pour them into the spreader, all while moving. Only took about an hour and we went though about 15 bags of 19-3-19. Whew!

I Need Weeds!

I was asked to be more diligent in my blogging, so here's update from the past 2 weeks:

I HATE GETTING UP EARLY!!

There it is. That pretty much sums up mine and Kelly's lives.

One thing I did learn from just today was this:

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I have Uncle Tom's fingers now.

Anyway, school's being going well. I have to collect and press 50 different weeds by Oct.12. I have 30 drying right now, but I'm starting to stretch for the last 20. Let me know if you have any cool weeds. Send me a picture so I can see if it's one I already have too.

I had a Genetics exam today. I did pretty well on it, which gives me hope for getting a good grade out of that class. I'm going to topdress the green next week. It's a pretty interesting process if you've never see it done before, and if you're not the one doing it. I'll take some pictures so you all can share in my joy. That's all I've got right now. My life is pretty boring, just sleep, school, work, school again, work again, homework, dinner, not enough sleep, and then it starts over. We've got a busy weekend ahead of us, so hopefully we'll have something new to share.