Friday, March 18
Thoughts
Final week is over... It's friday and the department is empty... Next week is Spring Break, the week everybody moves to Florida or Cancun and gets crazy. Last year I was gone with Nat in Utah, Arizona and Colorado hiking in the National Parks. This year, well, it will be quite a bit different. My vacation place will be the lab in Richardson where I will be running my model. I basically have 2 months to be done with my project and thesis so it's going to be wild. The weird thing is that I enjoy being busy, having something to spend my time on. I kind of see that more like a challenge than anything else. I want to see what I am able to do, how far I can go. It's like running a marathon and trying to reach the final line. And giving up is not allowed. Pretty exciting, and even more when you like what you're doing... I know it sounds crazy ;) Not everybody understands and I have no explanation to give except that it's kind of a drug for me. After being done with my defense and thesis, I'm planning on driving myself, my backpack and probably Max as well to Grand Canyon, the most beautiful place on Earth. Then, I will be flying to Quebec City for the Forest Products Society Annual Meeting with all the people I have been working with this year. It will be a good experience and certainly a good time with friends as well, friends that I won't probably see before a long time. Finally, Max and I are going to fly for the Bahamas for about 10 days of diving. This promises to be very exciting as well !!! Then, it will be time to say good bye. And this will be the most difficult for sure. Taking a one-way ticket won't be easy and to tell the truth I'm totally scared. There won't be any diving anymore with Max on week-ends, no coffee-cake after class at the Interzone with friends, no beers at the Squirell's, no project meetings with Jim F, Jim R and Charles anymore ... I feel like I have spent the most wonderful years of my short life here and leaving all this will be really hard. I know that I am going to start something new, something that might be as exciting as what I have been thru here but the transition won't be easy. Anyway, I will be with my family again and I am looking forward for this. For now working is the only thing I do to try to forget about me leaving in 3.5 months... Addicted and proud of it...
