oh tiny error bars…and…

But back to my wedding – it’s really shocking how expensive our attempt at a “cheap” wedding is ending up to be. At least paying Manhattan rent has be used to dropping absurd amounts of money on life.

Worse still is encountering the expectations people have for our wedding. Luckily, all of our parents (hi mom) have been incredibly hands off, but my less-than-traditional ideas have met some mild judgement. Shocking that the guy who rides his bike everywhere, practices the art of Neti and convinced his woman to house a worm bin in her apartment isn’t liking his foray into wedding planning. Eloping sounds better and better each day. It’s going to be a wonderful days with loved ones though and in spite of my gloom and doom, I am looking forward to it.

Anyway, be sure to check out http://www.keithandjoy.com for wedding updates.

On the evening of Christmas, Joy and I got engaged.  She’s slowly getting a story together to post here, so those of you that didn’t get to hear how it went down will get a better rendition than I would give.  We’ve also got plans to to take pics of the rings (yes, plural, I have one, too) for your viewing pleasure.

And as all soon-to-be married couples do, we have a website – www.keithandjoy.com.  Unbeknownest to me, there is another Keith and Joy (well, Joyanna actually) who took joyandkeith.com making the debate for whose name should be first very easy.

More coming soon…

In other news, Thanksgiving was a rousing success.  I was designated photographer for the 11-course extravaganza served up by the girlfriend’s brother – pics here.  I haven’t pared down the shots nor put them in any order, so have some patience while perusing.  The food was really amazing and the eating lasted from 5:30 until midnight.  Equal parts amazing and ridiculous.

Unfortunately, football this weekend was not quite so successful.  At least in losing to the Duck, my beloved Beavers made my decision about whether or not to go to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl for me.  Still, it was just painful to watch the complete defensive collapse that occured in Parker Stadium.  This was only matched by the Redskins offensive ineptitude against the New York Football Giants on Sunday.  At least I have the Blazers, whom I’ll be seeing tomorrow night at MSG.

Alright, automation is requiring some attention right now.

Since the 18th grade (2nd year of med school) class has become the thing on the side.  Unfortunately for me, I still have to actually pass my classes unlike those lab projects that could end in complete failure without reprecussions.  So yeah, class, however interesting it is, sucks.  I can’t wait to finish my final paper and be done with classes forever — I do understand that I’ll be learning forever, just no more semester long courses.

Besides class things are going pretty well.  My girlfriend and I just hit 10 months and we seems to be hurtling towards bigger things.  My experiments are finally moving forward in lab, no matter if the movement is glacial.  It’s much prefered to stagnation.  I guess I could complain about winter starting to set in — a few flakes were falling this AM on my way to work — but it’s really not as big of a deal as it has been in the past.

Gotta get back to work, but I’ll be home to Oregon the week of christmas if anyone will be in Oregon.