Life of a Single Married Lady

First of all, CONGRATULATIONS to David and Sonia (Carillo) Powaser, who were joined in holy matrimony last weekend!  We are all are so excited to welcome Sonia into our family and we can't wait to see more of her :) We travelled in style through the airport! On that note, in case you didn't hear, Wil surprised me in California for the wedding!  I wasn't supposed to see him until I flew up to Alaska after the wedding, but he dropped in early for some Powaser/Carillo family time.  We had a great time with the whole family!  Hopefully I'll have some more pictures to share in the coming weeks, but here are a few I had. Who are those two gorgeous people?? I've been in Alaska for 4 days now; in that time I've hiked to a glacier, seen a porcupine chilling in a tree, peed in the woods twice, tried brussels sprouts, released fry (salmon) into the wild with 18 fifth graders, observed the transport of hatchery smolt (salmon) to a new habitat, made some n...

I moved out of my apartment last week right after finals, and am now living at home with my family.  It's great to live with my siblings again...I missed them!  Also, Keri is giving me the clothes she doesn't want anymore, which I am greatly enjoying. Since I'm living at home but still working for U-M, I've been commuting to Ann Arbor--that's a drive anywhere from 30-60 minutes, depending on traffic, the route, and whether a combine decides to take to the road in front of me.  Unfortunately I've been discovering how idiotic people really are, expressed by their driving abilities. Today's near death experience was brought to you by Evil Blue Van (Sans License Plate).  EBV was driving next to me, not too far from home.  She decided that she wanted to change lanes.  Now, if she had put on her blinker while she was still offset from me, she wouldn't have had a problem changing lanes.  However, EBV waited until I was right next to her to change lanes,...

HAPPY GRADUATION (soon) to my brother John (Auburn University), cousin Clarissa (Madonna University), and best friend Dr. Olivia (Wayne State University)!  You have accomplished SO MUCH and I am incredibly proud of all of you :)       As for me, I have completed all academic requirements and am free to graduate!  Huzzah! Disclaimer: I know none of these lovely humans. Yesterday at about 2:50pm I gave a presentation about Maximum Covariance Analysis (contact me if you're interested), and at 4:28pm I turned in all 29 pages of writeup, figures, and code.  With that, my academic requirements were complete! Just today, a variety of students took their written qualifying exams down the hallway from me.  That should have been me last year or this year, but I decided I needed a break, I needed time, and I needed to figure out what I want to do with my life.  Although I regret leaving the people right here at U-M, including my...