Ok, ok, don't be so impatient, some times I can't update first thing in the morning. Anyway, a lot to say today.

I am oh, so popular

For a change, I am the oh, so popular one. I received not one but four contacts from President's Scholars at Georgia Tech looking to interview me because they need to speak to a professional aerospace engineer. How cool! Sarah was very insulted that they aren't calling her (most likely cause she's still listed as a Stanford student). This resulted in a very funny e-mail exchange to Randy McDow, the scholarship coordinator.

Sarah: Hey Randy, Becca's got *four* freshman PS's contacting her for information and I have none. And since I sit in the same cubicle as her, her bragging is getting annoying. What gives? :)

Randy:Cutri comes before Graybeal. Tell Becca to share and play nice. :-)

Anyway, it made me feel old.

Oh, I want a house and a yard and a garage and space

Tomorrow I am going back to see a house I looked at last Thursday that I really liked. I wanted to wait it out, because I was afraid I was just liking it because I was starting to get itchy about buying a house, but after thinking about it all weekend, I still like it. Anyway, the things I noticed while looking at the house that I didn't like are still making me a little concerned, but... so, those things are: its a one-story with the hot water heater in the attic (major flood risk if I don't check the pan often enough and it explodes or whatever they do when they fail); there's some random little hairline cracks in different ceiling spots (which I've spotted in almost every house, I guess it comes from settling and just needs to be caulked, but still); the cabinets are white (very modern) but its really a laminate over wood and one a couple of the dozen+ cabinets the laminate is kind of chipping off on the corners (my realtor said she mentioned it to the other realtor and the owners didn't even know this was happening and are going to fix it, whatever that means).

Anyway, I'm bringing some friends tomorrow to look at it with me before I make an offer. If you want to look at it and give me your opinion, go to www.har.com and search for a single family home with MLS#7501093. The family has already moved out, they were the original owners, it was built in 1995 and is still under the builder's warranty.

D.C. Rocks

D.C. Rocks for many reasons and I will list them later, but I actually have to get some work done.