Posted by taneya on January 25, 2008 under School | 
Can you say “come up for air?” I am so exhausted right now! I am taking the GRE on Monday morning and I have been studying like a madwoman for it these past few days. It’s absolutely insane!
Some of you who have read my blog for awhile may remember that just before I found out we were going to have Kaleya, I was making plans to pursue a PhD. That didn’t work out 
.. But now, I have another opportunity for advanced education that I am pursuing (with WONDERFUL support from my boss!) and so I’m going through the process now of applications, GREs, etc., etc. If I am accepted for the program I’d like to pursue, I’ll be working towards an Masters of Public Health degree with a biomedical informatics sponsorship. The best part is that I won’t even have to move if I get it – it would be through Vanderbilt.
Wish me luck! I’ll know the final decisions in late spring. So, until Monday I’m off to review my new vocabulary (opprobrium, sedulous, aggrandize, capricious, dilatory, craven, torpor, and potentate are just some of my new faves) and get my mind working through mathematical problems!
Posted by taneya on January 20, 2008 under Kaleya, Movies |
It’s been a movie-watching weekend this weekend! Yesterday, my friend watched Kaleya for several hours while Kalonji and I went to the movies. We went to go see The Great Debaters and Cloverfield. I enjoyed both tremendously though they were very different from each other. Then, last night, I finally watched The Bourne Ultimatum. I have the other two movies and will be adding #3 to my collection shortly.
And, yesterday, just because, I decided to take a few pics of Kaleya. Of course she had to model for me
Posted by taneya on January 15, 2008 under Books, Family, School |
I’m so proud of myself! I just created my first Java applications! Okay – the code was all of one line, but hey – gotta start somewhere right?
This comes about from the fact that I am taking a computer science course this semester that will teach us how to program in Java. The instructor of the course stresses however, that the course is about how to solve problems using computers. The Java language is just the tool we are going to use to solve those problems. Should be quite interesting….
In other news, Miles came in 2nd place in his school spelling bee. Way to go Miles! We also went to Talladega this weekend to visit family and had a good time. Poor Kaleya did not want to leave her cousin – she had a blast playing with him all weekend.
Oh! And I almost forgot to post this — I have been reading the Golden Compass books and just love them! A couple of nights ago I finished the second book in the series, The Subtle Knife, but it will probably be the weekend before I can start the third one, The Amber Spyglass. I find the writing of these books to be quite good and I become so engaged in the storyline. I haven’t seen the Golden Compass movie, and I was wanting to wait until I finished all three books, but I’m afraid that if I wait much longer, I’ll miss it being in the movie theaters. I hope to try and see it over the next couple of weeks.
Posted by taneya on January 6, 2008 under Books, Jihad, Kaleya, Movies, Photos |
Happy New Year!!
Kaleya & her brother Jihad on Christmas Day.
Over the holidays, we went to Indiana to visit the boys, then off to North Carolina to visit my family. We had a great trip and Kaleya really enjoyed herself playing with her brothers and her cousins.
Kalonji and I also celebrated our sixth wedding anniversary over the holidays, we were married on New Year’s Eve. I wish I had blogged that long ago so I could go back and revisit the post We were able to sneak away and go to the movies – we saw National Treasure 2 and enjoyed it. Over the holidays we also saw I am Legend and enjoyed that too. I still want to see The Golden Compass, but I’m working my way through the books right now (I’m on the second book, the Subtle Knife) and want to read all three before seeing it. I’d better hurry up though before I miss my opportunity!
Pictures are here.
