where is rob?
here i am!
its been entirely too long since i've posted. for a while there i just really didn't have anything to say. i was bogged down in the drama of researching and writing, and while i have just now successfully completed the first of three papers, i feel like i'm ok. i have a lot more work ahead of me, but in the brief period between papers i'm going to take the opportunity to recap the happenings of the past month or so.
suzanne and i recently celbrated our four year anniversary. we joke that we now have completed an undergraduate program in "rob and suzology," but no degrees have been issued yet. its hard looking back on four years and trying to remember everything that has happened, and the effort to do so resulted in the fantastic realization that we are finally here, where we have planned to be, doing what we planned to do for so long. life is difficult, so i'm thankful that i have a partner in crime who i can lean on and who can lean on me.
from the anniversary we will jump forward quickly to christmas. after a two year absence on the homefront for the holidays, i made my triumphant return, only to be slightly overshadowed by the fact that my brother, my younger brother the rocket scientist who is destined to be hugely more successful than me, has proposed to his longtime girlfriend and is now engaged to be married. it boggles my mind that the little jerk who used to play constantly with legos, eat teaspoonfulls of margarine and use tape to fix everything is making this huge step into adulthood.
christmas itself was everything is used to be, which somehow left it lacking. i'm not going off on a rant now about how "you can never go home," but its strange how things stay the same, but time changes them. suzanne and i presented the family with meticulously collected gifts which seemed to be hugely successful despite our limited budget.
the two gifts given to me that have proven to be my most favorite are an awesome zip-up hooded sweater (unfortunately from the gap) and an antique silver pocket watch from way back in, get this, 1878! i've been in the market for a watch for a good long time now as i feel like a tool checking my cell phone every time i want to know what time it is, and i spent some time looking on ebay for pocket watches and some of them were actually reasonably priced. my dad has become quite the pro at ebay bidding and he managed to find me a pocket watch that i can only describe as perfect. its appropriately beaten and battered by time without looking mangled and destroyed. it is key-wound so i'm going to have to be a responsible adult and actually take care of it which i look forward to with eager anticipation. anticipation because the watch is in need of some small repairs and is unforunatley not in my custody as of yet, but i held it and admired it like a five year old child with a brand new toy while i was home.
i also got a new chess set that provided hours of bonding time between me, my brother and my father. so, between hours and hours of a christmas story and hours and hours of chess, the holiday was filled with all sorts of family oriented fun...and scotch, lots and lots of scotch. in fact, another of my favorite gifts is the bottle of johnny walker black label that my brother got me. as it is rapidly disappearing i'm realizing that the fine line between the values of quantity and quality gets blurrier as you drink more.
now, the most recent and also the terminus of the holiday season, new year's eve, has come and gone. suzanne and i did not really partake in any festivities. we were both working on our papers well after midnight, and only took a brief pause to ring in the new year, toast eachother and vow to face each day of this coming year with love and philosophy. we then sent text messages to pretty much everyone whose number we have and then got back to work (well...she did, i played video games because my brain was fried).
one paper down, two to go. i will be heading back to rochester again in the coming week because my cousin has asked me to be the godfather of her brand new baby girl, and i look forward to the opportunity to corrupt yet another young soul (this will actually be my second godchild).
happy holidays everyone! i hope this tome of a blog-post finds you happy and healthy after the long arduous holiday season.
its been entirely too long since i've posted. for a while there i just really didn't have anything to say. i was bogged down in the drama of researching and writing, and while i have just now successfully completed the first of three papers, i feel like i'm ok. i have a lot more work ahead of me, but in the brief period between papers i'm going to take the opportunity to recap the happenings of the past month or so.
suzanne and i recently celbrated our four year anniversary. we joke that we now have completed an undergraduate program in "rob and suzology," but no degrees have been issued yet. its hard looking back on four years and trying to remember everything that has happened, and the effort to do so resulted in the fantastic realization that we are finally here, where we have planned to be, doing what we planned to do for so long. life is difficult, so i'm thankful that i have a partner in crime who i can lean on and who can lean on me.
from the anniversary we will jump forward quickly to christmas. after a two year absence on the homefront for the holidays, i made my triumphant return, only to be slightly overshadowed by the fact that my brother, my younger brother the rocket scientist who is destined to be hugely more successful than me, has proposed to his longtime girlfriend and is now engaged to be married. it boggles my mind that the little jerk who used to play constantly with legos, eat teaspoonfulls of margarine and use tape to fix everything is making this huge step into adulthood.
christmas itself was everything is used to be, which somehow left it lacking. i'm not going off on a rant now about how "you can never go home," but its strange how things stay the same, but time changes them. suzanne and i presented the family with meticulously collected gifts which seemed to be hugely successful despite our limited budget.
the two gifts given to me that have proven to be my most favorite are an awesome zip-up hooded sweater (unfortunately from the gap) and an antique silver pocket watch from way back in, get this, 1878! i've been in the market for a watch for a good long time now as i feel like a tool checking my cell phone every time i want to know what time it is, and i spent some time looking on ebay for pocket watches and some of them were actually reasonably priced. my dad has become quite the pro at ebay bidding and he managed to find me a pocket watch that i can only describe as perfect. its appropriately beaten and battered by time without looking mangled and destroyed. it is key-wound so i'm going to have to be a responsible adult and actually take care of it which i look forward to with eager anticipation. anticipation because the watch is in need of some small repairs and is unforunatley not in my custody as of yet, but i held it and admired it like a five year old child with a brand new toy while i was home.
i also got a new chess set that provided hours of bonding time between me, my brother and my father. so, between hours and hours of a christmas story and hours and hours of chess, the holiday was filled with all sorts of family oriented fun...and scotch, lots and lots of scotch. in fact, another of my favorite gifts is the bottle of johnny walker black label that my brother got me. as it is rapidly disappearing i'm realizing that the fine line between the values of quantity and quality gets blurrier as you drink more.
now, the most recent and also the terminus of the holiday season, new year's eve, has come and gone. suzanne and i did not really partake in any festivities. we were both working on our papers well after midnight, and only took a brief pause to ring in the new year, toast eachother and vow to face each day of this coming year with love and philosophy. we then sent text messages to pretty much everyone whose number we have and then got back to work (well...she did, i played video games because my brain was fried).
one paper down, two to go. i will be heading back to rochester again in the coming week because my cousin has asked me to be the godfather of her brand new baby girl, and i look forward to the opportunity to corrupt yet another young soul (this will actually be my second godchild).
happy holidays everyone! i hope this tome of a blog-post finds you happy and healthy after the long arduous holiday season.
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