Spring

Spring is upon us!! Okay, so it is still pretty much 40 degrees and gray. I can't believe I haven't posted anything in almost two weeks. Even though it is cold still there have been a sprinkling of really beautiful days - sun, bright blue sky, ..45 degrees? We're getting there. I think that the bunnies know spring is coming and they are getting a little bit more frisky. Every once in a while I'll come across an open field and see a big pack of them hanging out. Which reminds me! I saved the lives of a few bunnies the other day. When I was on a run a saw some big waddley ones in the street and (i'm pretty sure) we made eye contact. I said: "bunnies, get out of the street!" and I ran at them, and they went and hid under a bush. And then I said - "stay there bunnies, you are safe there." Oh bunnies.

Let's see.. what else has been going on. I made a dungeon: http://host-vs235.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/dungeonHome.html. Don't judge it now cause we haven't learned how to do style sheets so it's not that pretty. It reads in data from a dungeon data file and then creates a virtual dungeon. No, as many people have pointed out, it is not a game. (But I do have a feeling it may be one of those websites that changes your life forever.)

So I've been doing school work, enjoying cooking, getting down to walk on the beach when the weather's nice, and playing guitar. Also I've been watching Mad Men. And battling a cold that has lasted for too long. Here are a few pics from a day that Clara, Elizabeth and I went to a bonfire out on the beach, and then some pics from the DRA ball. The ball took place in a farm outside of St. Andrews - so weird! They shuttled everyone there in buses. It was really cool inside though; they had a labyrinth of different rooms for dancing etc. Also the artist was "lee ryan" from the british boy band "blue." Not positive but I think it may be the equivalent of (for example) one of the dudes from LFO coming and playing some of his new songs, and then DJing some stuff. Except that LFO songs are timeless. Anyway, the best part of the ball was that they had free ice cream and free champagne! I got 2 helpings of ice cream, mint chocolate chip and some weird marshmallow one.

I'm hoping to see Alice in Wonderland tonight! Hope its not too scary. (P.s. check out the pick of siannie - I think its pronounced like shanny! - with my new guitar)

P.p.s. In other news, I just found out that I got into the REU that I applied for this summer! There are 7 other people in the program, which takes place near Baltimore at UMBC. We will be learning about/working on programs for clients dealing with parallel computing in the "high performance computing facility" there. It is for two months and it pays very well, in addition to them paying for our food/housing there. But I will miss Blacksburg a lot!! :( . Apparently It is about 3 hrs from charlottesville, 5 hrs from Blacksburg, though, and we have every weekend off - so hopefully I'll get to spend some time at home.