Mid-Summer Progress Report
It’s getting pretty close to August now and it’d be an understatement to say that July hasn’t brought quite the productivity that May and June did. Some of it has been slackness on my part, but honestly there’s been a lot of stuff that was sort of out of my control. I lit a fire under my butt and took on more things this summer than I ever have, and I’m actually fairly pleased with the way I’ve handled it.
My thesis will not be finished by the time school starts back again, but then again that was probably an unrealistic expectation anyway. Well not unrealistic at the time, but since then, my advisor has brought in a couple of other pieces that I didn’t think were going to be implemented. My new goal is to at least have all of the coding/programming done before the time comes when I don’t have all day to sit there and think about it/hash it out.
Some of you may know there were rumblings of an exodus from 3234/Mo’ville. To be honest, I had mixed emotions about it. The opportunity that was presented was really nice and would have been a great place to live, but it would have meant actually living in Raleigh again. Not that Raleigh is so bad to me, but after 3 years here, I’ve really become attached to this part of the Triangle and I know when the time comes I’ll definitely look into this area for a house. The point is, though, that we’re staying so it’s at least another year of 3234. Ya’ll drop by now, ya hear?
And so it begins, the countdown to the end of summer. In all likelihood, it shall be my final summer as a non-professional, and thus my final summer of freedom. Here’s to sending it off with a bang.