Yesterday was a long day (I worked 11 hours), but it was fun. Nothing like being a part of a conversation with a C-17 with a crew of doctors flying somewhere near Astana (Kazakhstan). All I have to say is that Landing Support is cool, the Russians are cool, and the Soyuz is cool. And there was lots of downtime, so I got some of my presentation done for class.

I came in way too early this morning to finish the presentation. But its done now. Though, I'm afraid I don't have a sufficiently good understanding of the subject material and that my professor will pull a Dr. Seitzman (a Socratic-like question asking prof from GT). And then he'll fail me and I'll owe NASA $3500 for the class. Why do I live in fear of this?

To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

I can't wait for the weekend, even though it will be mostly consumed by mowing the lawn and doing homework and cleaning and sorting and stacking. The usual.