Well here we are in North Carolina! We don't have all of the boxes unpacked yet but we did get our new driver's licenses yesterday. Our new apartment is definitely bigger than the one in Logan but at the same time there is less space to store things. We used the last of our gift cards from getting married to buy a couple shelves for the kitchen since it only has a couple cupboards for storage. We also got a couch from Craigslist and a couple of pieces of furniture from Goodwill. All in all it is shaping up very nice.
Heather currently has three (or maybe its four) job applications that she is waiting to hear back about. Of all the jobs she is most excited about a couple of pediatric nutrition jobs in the UNC Healthcare system. We could definitely use some prayers on that front though.
I have been working for one of my new professors this past week. He only has enough money to hire me for two months this summer but I hope I can find some other project to do during August. For my Physics buddies who will understand this: we are working on a Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) system. Right now I am writing a LabVIEW program that looks at data from one computer and uses it to tell another computer whether it should open or close some shutters between the source elements and the sample. Technically I believe the setup is called "phase lock epitaxy." It isn't a new idea by any means but our lab has never done it before so it is new to us.
Pictures are forthcoming in the next post!
Yeah, our kitchen is pretty sad compared to our last one. We only have five cupboards for food/dishes/spices, including the smaller ones that go above the stove and sink. Which just leaves us one regular size cupboard and the cupboards under the sink. Our counterspace includes the space above the dishwasher (which is our kitchen bonus) and a 2' x 2' table that is attached to the wall next to the fridge.
ReplyDeleteRobert forgot to mention our pest problem. When we moved in we found 2 dead cockroaches and a live one. Since moving in, we have found about 8 more. I read online where an exterminator said that a whole nest of cockroaches could live on the glue that is in a cardboard box....makes the desire to unpack even stronger, but we really have no place to put some things yet. The exterminator said he would rather see things in a plastic bag than in cardboard. This also means that there will be a new definition of cleaning the kitchen and a daily run to the dumpster to take out the trash. This is a dietitians nightmare (on the food-service side).
None-the-less, things are coming together; slowly, but surely. I am at home a lot looking and waiting about jobs. As Robert mentioned, prayers are welcomed.
I do enjoy the thunderstorms here. Anyway, that's pretty much it.