All’s Quiet on the Fools Front

Maybe I’ve spoken too soon, but for the first time in several years, I haven’t been pranked today. At least there wasn’t anything I noticed in my office. It’s kinda strange not to have something happen on April Fools’ Day. Very much unlike two years ago, when I discovered my part of the office had been meticulously foiled by Amber & Caren. The lack of a prank this year seems to be positively correlated with the fact that they’ve both moved away from State College since then. I was assured of no pranks in my apartment at least, since I don’t currently have a roommate who can loan out keys. 😉
For those of you wondering why I haven’t been blogging too much lately, part of the reason is that I’ve been working a fair amount on a webpage for my parents, who are considering selling their property. So if you’ve been looking to buy some lake property in northwestern Wisconsin, check it out!
I’ve also been writing up a post about my recent experience with a field experiment involving smoke grenades, but that’s still a work in progress. We didn’t start too many fires with the grenades, haha.
I think I forgot to mention previously on here that back in early-mid March I found out that I won Third Place Student Oral Presentation at the 89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting down in Phoenix this January, and a cash award to go with it! I didn’t even know there were such awards, so this was a most unexpected delivery from AMS!
The 24th Penn State Graduate Exhibition was this past Sunday in the HUB on campus. I presented the same poster that I presented at ICS Day back in February. It sucked up my entire day though, because we had to be there by 10am, judging was from 11am-2pm (though my first judge didn’t come by until 12:45pm), the public viewing session from noon-3pm, and then the awards ceremony was 4:30-5pm. Even though my three judges all had very positive things to say about my work and my presentation, I didn’t win, place or show in the Physical Sciences category. I thought I had a good chance, but oh well. It’s still another thing to add to my CV, I guess. Speaking of which, that’s another thing I plan to add to my website one of these days, my curriculum vitae, since I finally typed one up recently. I finally decided I should maybe get one before I forgot the details of everything I’ve ever done. Perhaps I should consider typing up a resume at some point too, for the same reasons…
Stay tuned, more bloggish activity to come tomorrow morning. No foolin’!