Catch it up II

Alright alright, This post picks up where we left off...

And once we're through here, We'll be caught up through October and ready for the pending, Waco Thanksgiving Celebration (in our apartment).

Right, So! I think we still need to 'carve' it up with... The Pumpkin.

It's a real contest. You've got to pick a design that will appeal to both the judges and the general audience. But, you've also got to do it in a time frame. Yes, the Quadrangle Pumpkin Carving Contest is a real combination of art and efficiency. The best carved pumpkin gets $75 off its creator's rent for the month of November with other prizes for 2nd and 3rd place. We didn't win, but at least we had a fun time carving some cool pumpkins. This year, I finally carved a Trogdor pumpkin (thanks to Kristin for finding the template!). And I was able to help K with her pumpkin, suggesting she do a Pumpkin π.

We'll post pictures soon!

So we weighed Finnegan and he is starting to turn into... A Monster.

Yeah, he's grown at a pretty good clip. He's at least eight pounds now, which puts him just three pounds under Loki. And, he will probably fill out his already lengthy frame. So he will at least catch up, if not surpass greatly, Loki is the Size department. And of course, he is still very much a Kitten at heart. He does not really respond to discipline, in that he still jumps up places we have greatly discouraged. But he has learned. Learned that he's going to get wet if we are around when he does it (which doesn't seem to deter him...) But the last fun nugget of news about Finn is that he has now taught himself how to get a whole roll of toilet paper off the roll. Yeah, so we're going to leave the TP under the sink for a few weeks before we test it out again.

And Lastly, I've caught up to current evens with... The Conference.

Kristin is a Scientist. And Scientists always need more ideas, or at least to make sure their ideas are valid, good, and worthwhile. So, this past week, Kristin has been talking work with a bunch of fancy-famous people from Labs all round the country to share her ideas and catch up with what's going on round the field. Portland OR is the location of this year's SETAC convention. The Society of Environmental Toxicologists and Chemists draws in researchers from all realms of environmental work. Researchers from both Schools and Government programs (like the EPA and USGS) are the main contributors of the material. Kristin did a poster session (where she compressed her work to fit on a 3' by 4' surface) and she attended many platform presentations of research. She got a lot of good feedback and a lot of positive interest in her paper.

So yeah, that's October through now. We'll patch in some images from this past month soon here, and we are super excited to host the (immediate) Connors family for Thanksgiving!

DJC

PS

You should totally click on the Trogdor link, this is probably one of the Best Strongbad Emails ever created on www.homestarrunner.com