Guster Concert

And the semester just keeps marching on, we’re already through the first week of October. That means midterms aren’t far off [shudder]. Even though I only have the one class (Atmospheric Turbulence), I’m still not looking forward to it.
I’m finally getting really close to having my first journal article finished. This paper is basically a condensed (and much better!) version of my Master’s thesis, and I’ve been working on it since late July. Now that I’ve gotten one or more sets of edits from all the other co-authors (Joel, Sue, John, Dave & AJ), it’s finally ready to go, except for a little tweaking of the figures. I spent some time over at ARL late last week figuring out how to alter some of those figures, so I should hopefully be able to finish all that early this week. I’m really hoping that we can submit the paper this week to the journal Atmospheric Environment for review as well. It’d be great to get that out of my hair so that I can start focusing a little more on my future research.
I went to my second concert in a week back on Thursday evening, when the band Guster came to town and performed at the BJC. Student tickets were only $20, so I went with David, Ethan, Lindsay (‘Scotland’), Aviva & Justin. It was a really fun concert, I enjoy their music quite a bit. We were on the floor right in front of the stage, and I would’ve taken a couple pictures except my camera’s batteries decided to crap out on me. Lame!
After losing a couple games on the road, the Nittany Lions football team came back home for a game with the struggling Iowa Hawkeyes. So we got another meteo tailgate together, and then went to the game. First off, it was unseasonably warm for October around here, as it was 84 degrees with full sun. Standing in the sun for hours really sapped my energy, and by the time the sun went down behind the stands midway through the 4th quarter I was quite tired of it! But as for the game, PSU started out very slowly (again, ugh), and the fans were booing Morelli mercilessly with every bad throw in the 1st quarter. But then Penn State’s offense (including Morelli!) came alive in the 2nd quarter, and they went up 13-0 at halftime (with Kevin Kelly kicking a career-long 53-yd field goal as time expired). By the end of the 3rd quarter it was 20-0, with Penn State having held Iowa to a measly 54 yards of offense and 2 first downs! Iowa was able to put one drive together in the 4th (off of one of Morelli’s 2 4th-quarter picks, grr), but Penn State held on for a solid 27-7 victory. At least now we’ve got some momentum heading into the homecoming game next weekend against Wisconsin.
Time to get ready for another week. Hopefully I’ll be able to find a little time here and there to re-do my website in Dreamweaver (I originally made it in GoLive). I was planning to make some minor changes, but for whatever reason that’s proving difficult (maybe partly because I’m very new to Dreamweaver and am just learning how to do a few things in that program). Oh well, I guess I have another fun little project vying for my time. 🙂