I finally, finally purchased a domain name. www.pilesofrock.com (That's "piles of rock" not "pile so frock"! I already plan a page devoted to explaining it). This is thanks to Sarah noticing that her host (www.dreamhost.com) was having a sale of domain name registration + 800 mb of server space at 77 cents per month (for a total of less than $10 for the first year!). Anyway, I jumped on that. And Sarah is pleased because she gets about 6 times that in a referral bonus. Ok, anyway, yeah for a new domain name. Now, I just need to, you know, redesign my web page. Yet again, here's to hoping Sarah-master-designer will help me out with that.

Last night I went swimming, did some studying but not nearly enough, meaning I'll have to blow some work off today to do more studying. That always makes me feel guilty. I don't know why. I frequently blow work off to read the news on the Internet or update my blog, and I feel like studying is a better use of my time than that, right? Right? Ok, see there I am trying to justify it to myself and not really doing a good job. Actually, I was *supposed* to have a sim today, and usually during sims I've got several hours of down time. I figured that would be ideal for studying. But it was canceled because of the hurricanes in Florida last month. Don't ask. Butterfly flapping its wings and all.

The thing is, next week will be crazy! I have a NEEMO shift every day, plus a Landing Support sim one day, and the Soyuz launch. Crazy! I wish I could borrow some hours from next week to use this week when all I'm really doing is puttering around and trying to avoid starting anything that I won't be able to work on all next week.

Grandma and Caroline come tonight! Yeah for visitors. My house isn't as pristine as I would've liked for their visit, but c'est la vie. My life is chaos, I beat back some it just for them, but there's only so many hours in a day (especially now that I'm bizarrely Karen-like in my requirement of 8 hours of sleep per night).