Slowly Learning...

I appologize to anyone out there who checked in and found nothing new posted recently. I've been rather busy this week with meetings and visits. However, it definitely was a good busy with a 3 day visit from Steff. I've also been slack on updating my flickr account, but in that situation I just hadn't taken many pictures recently. I do however have a good number from Steff's visit and my mom's visit which I hope to get up later this evening (or by tomorrow evening at the very latest).

In other news, I am now a proud owner of my very own ipod. I have finally fully come around to this digiatl age (with my recent additions of a digital camera, online picture posting, semi-regular blogging, and my new ipod). In a weird twist though, the ipod was a suggestion of my mother (on of the least technical people, no offense mom). It also turned out to be a perfect suggestion too, as it will save me a lot of packing space when I head off to Beijing. Insted of having to narrow down my cd collection to a handful, and then having to find room for those, I can just throw them all onto the ipod (I do have a 60 gig one, so they should all fit) and carry that around. So good going on that one mom.

I've also slowly begun the packing process, sending the first batch home with my mom last night (although it was only jackets and chairs). Next up, packing all my books and dvds (which shouldn't be too bad, I hope). It is kind of sad to have to box it all up and move, but it's more than time. I've been here over my standard 12 months, and everyone else from the area (except for Bri) has left, making it rather quite (and lonely). However, this does mean that for any of you out there that are still in the Rochester area, and want to get together sometime, I will be all moved back to Greece by the 7th. And there I shall stay until the 27th. So hopefully I should have enough time to see all the people that I've been sadly out of contact with lately.

And as a last, sad note, for all you NYC people, it doesn't look like I'll be able to make it into the city again as I had hoped. Finances and time are just running too short. Sorry if I missed any of you the last time, but I shall do my best to make it up in the spring.