Finally...

Hey everyone! I'm finally putting out a blog...geeze louise. Crazy to think of Tiffany in such a different place and seeing some of the effects of the earthquake.

Life here is going well. Been busy with work, thesis, house sitting for the parents of a good college friend, things like that. Right now I'm living in Alexandria, VA in a nice house with an almost-too-friendly cat that just won't stop licking me. That's normal behavior for him - Simba. Maybe someday he'll learn to roar instead of just lick. Who knows.

I remember Janelle requested a "moving in" blog. To tell you the truth, we still aren't really moved in all that well. Everyone's been traveling a lot and wrapping up things at previous schools (except me...ugh, but I'm house sitting) so we all haven't been in the house very consistently. But I will put up some pictures of the move from June 21.


So here me and my roommate (John Creasy, nuclear engineering Texas A&M) were unloading my hitch. I had that U-Haul, my car on the tow dolly, and then (I think) my bicycle on the back of my car so that amused me greatly. You'll see a bigger and better picture of that rear end soon.

Here's us posing together. I almost created a disaster with my car by forgetting to take the chains off connecting my car's tire wells to the tow dolly. I went in reverse a little, felt the snag on something and John saw what was going on...oops! A little too eager to get my car off that thing.

So next are the "going through the threshold" pictures going into the house:


(the promised rear end...hehehhe)
I'm smiling right now kinda like I am in the picture

His girlfriend Angela was taking the pictures. I also had a couple of friends come down from Baltimore to help with the move later that evening, which was really nice. A mini college reunion.

I like it a lot here and miss RMC and all of you in IDR. Things are good, thesis is frustrating as usual and I can't wait to be free, but it will get done. I like the people I work with, the roomies are great, and I'll be traveling some for work this calendar year. Prague at the end of September, possibly Burkina Faso in Oct/Nov (wonder how much Tresor knows about the Burkinabe), and possibly Ukraine I don't know when. Not a bad deal!

I have some funny/interesting Mennonite-themed stories to tell so this will serve as my reminder to put them up sometime next.


Blessings to you all and I should come to Raleigh either in September or October so I will track you down and make you hang out with me!!!

----Ethan