Too Cold!!

It's just me again. I tried to rename the blog, but unfortunately "Look! Becky has a blog that has been dumped by her husband because he's too busy playing World of Warcraft to spend five minutes writing an entry- too!" is too long for Blogger. Bummer. Anyways, Kevin is still addicted to World of Warcraft and is now in the process of getting our friend Dave hooked. He has no shame. Anyways, it was a busy past week. Besides the regular seminars, classes, and meetings, the Notre Dame Biology Department hosted graduate recruits over the weekend. That meant the labs had to be available to meet and talk with the potential recruits. Saturday was super busy. I left home around 8:15am and didn't get home until 10:00pm. Dr. Ferdig asked us to be in the lab from 9am-12:15pm so recruits could visit the lab. The lab decided that since we had to be in on a Saturday, we might as well make it fun. We brought food, games, and Simpsons. Even our lab techs, who weren't required to be there on Saturday, came in. We had a great time and even managed to get some work done. I met a lot of cool people. Another BYU alumni is considering Notre Dame. He knows both me and Dave. He took icthyology from my dad when Dave was TA'ing it, and he came on some field trips for an ecology lab I took as a master's student. Hopefully he'll come. We're always trying to build our numbers here.

Riley is now a year old!! We didn't celebrate his birthday much. We weren't sure if it'd make us crazy dog owners to throw him a party, but luckily our friend Tom stepped up. He took Riley during the day while we were at work. Riley played all day with his pal Gretchen and came back home to us completely worn out. He ate his dinner and promptly fell asleep. Tom and Gretchen gave Riley some nice gifts too. All in all, I think Riley had a good birthday.

Tom took me and Kevin to Bethel College's Romeo and Juliet on Friday too. We had a good time and were very impressed with Bethel's acting department. Maybe we'll go to more plays there.

The big story here is the cold weather. We were planning on going to Chicago on Sunday for the Chinese New Year parade but got trapped at home. The temperature got up to 5 degrees with a wind chill of -30 degrees. The wind gusts were up to 50 mph. The visibility was so poor in South Bend that the police department issued a No-Drive warning with white-out conditions. We figured we'd be safer and happier staying home. Maybe next year.