Hey it's 2010 and I haven't posted here in a while. Not that anyone follows this, and it's mostly just a spot to practice writing random bits of reflective ideas and thoughts. Lots of things between last post occurred so here's a quick recap of major highlights:

Winter/Spring 2008:
PMPEE (and work mostly took up time for the first half of 2008, but I also applied to the MSIM program mid-year and was accepted to start fall 2008).

Summer 2008: I purchased a condo. It was a new experience in home buying. Soo much paperwork, but definitely worth the learning experience. Time spent researching is helpful.

Fall/Winter Dec 2008:
Orientation for the execMSIM program started nice classy event where we all introduced ourselves listened to some talks and had wine & cheese on the evening. Starting off fall quarter with a fun Saturday morning event in Walker Ames Kane hall, with much ado about the program and speakers. Friday evening & Saturday classes take up the weekends and full-time work is just full of tool testing and documentation.

Winter/Spring 2009:
Lots of interesting opportunities this quarter, meeting a German born prof Jochen and assigned a group of fun individuals. Taxonomy class that comes back to use hmm a year later.
Life consumed by colleagues, co-workers, new condo, family, work, deliverables, and hobbies. Start-up this silly Heelys thing.

Summer 2009:
Take easy DB course then prepare to be bridesmaid and trip to Germany.
Make a week stop in Andover, MA, to see mom's family, cousins, in-laws, and family friends before spending month of September in Germany for class trip on info management in central europe >> Munchen, Neuschwanstein, Austria, Oktoberfest, Berlin.

Fall/Winter 2009
Start fall courses, finish up Germany deliverables, catch up with work...then, fracture neck before Halloween...Spend rest of the season recovering at home.

Winter/Spring 2010:
Continue to heal neck, partially back to work & school stuff. More updates later...on healing process since it's definitely (well so you hope) once in a lifetime events.