Bradley's Pad

Die tree, die!!

The past month has been pretty quiet. I have been getting ready for my initial committee meeting. This meeting is deigned to introduce my committee to myself but more importantly my project. For those who are unfamiliar with the process of getting a PhD this committee is made up of faculty members who will follow me throughout my tenure as a graduate student. Their job is to ensure that I am doing the things that I need to receive a PhD. Finally, at my dissertation defense I ‘defend’ my research to them. To get ready for the initial meeting one must prepare a short summary on my the research that I propose doing and prepare a very short presentation. I have also, of course, been continuing with my research. As usual in research, it is going slowly but going nonetheless.

This week I had the opportunity to go see a performance put on by the Young Ambassadors of BYU. Their program included singing and dancing. The performance followed the ideal life; childhood, adolescence, marriage, adulthood and growing old. They were very good at what they did…suffice it to say it reminded me of Saturday’s Warriors.

Unfortunately, the only biking that I get in is my daily commute to and from lab. I’d like tpo do more but another activity has taken priority, working in the yard. Yesterday I started to take down a tree in the backyard. A vicious vine was overtaking this tree, it was a matter of time before the vine would kill the tree. It also was in the way any time that I wanted to take out the garbage or mow the lawn. I was only able to take down half of it as there was only so much room in our yard waste bins; I’ll do the rest next week.

That’s it for now.