October Days

There are so many subtle things that make this funnier every time I watch it, some unintended, like the canon advertisements.

I’ve been remembering to laugh and enjoy life lately. I think I have a tendency to get so involved in things that I forget to stop and enjoy the present moment.

Life has been going well for us. We had one of our friends, Gabe, in town last weekend. He was interviewing at Dental schools. He was with us while he was interviewing at PITT. We had fun introducing him to Pittsburgh. I realized Pittsburgh has been growing on me as we talked about how it was living here. The fall has been beautiful! and it wasn’t a ‘good’ year compared to others from what I hear. On our way home from church today, we took a little detour through a park. We listened to classical music as we drove through the bright, warm, and glowing fall colors of orange, red, and yellow. Sounds kind of romantic…it was:)

This week was eventful. The ‘school’ at Carnegie Mellon that my program is a part of, the ‘Heinz’ school is now the ‘Heinz College’. It has the school of Public Policy and Management and the ‘School of Information Systems’. They even put up a whole new website for us. It’s pretty exciting. A group of 3 Indians approached me and asked me to be on their team for a 24 hour ‘Code Challenge’ put on my Morgan Stanley. I thought it would be fun so I agreed. We started out strong and optimistic as we had some good ideas and made some quick progress on the problem. The problem was fun and we came up with good ideas, we just couldn’t get our code to work, so after about 14 hours the team decided it wasn’t worth continuing and our time would be better spent getting sleep and finishing assignments that were due. It was a fun experience though and I now understand more how to work with my Indian friends and what all their mannerisms mean.

After getting some sleep, Sharon and I went to the Carnegie Art museum for a fun Saturday date. They have a 'Life on Mars' exhibit showing right now. The objective of the art pieces were to show life on earth from a different perspective and light. Nothing really struck us as amazing. Some of it was out there...like alien to us. The coolest piece was a room with a lot of glass balls on the floor, like giant marbles. We enjoyed getting out. We didn't have time for the Natural History Museum so we'll have to go there next time. I want to see the T-Rex vs. T-Rex exhibit.

Sharon is still having fun at work. This Friday they took a field trip to a pumpkin patch, which was not only fun, but helped the kids take a nice long nap afterwards.

I’m entering a stage of searching and interviewing for internships. I’ve had a couple good leads so far and I we will see what opportunities come up.