First reader passed!

Stuart signed off on my portfolio (the Producer presentation is currently freezing on IE for some reason, so I need to fix that) so now it's off to the second reader. More waiting, but I'm stoked that it's through the first hurdle.

I'm at my second day of residency and everything's going smoothly. Hung out with Jim and Dan K. last night, which was a lot of fun.

Welp, I submitted my portfolio today! Now I just have to wait for it to pass both readers...

I'm glad it's out of the way, but now I get to experience the stress of waiting to see if there are any problems with it...

H has laryngitis and can barely speak right now. It's kinda sad, but strangely quiet. Though the kids are making up for it.

Discovered a new leak in the basement tonight, no thanks to all the rain that's been coming down lately.

Classes have started - I'm taking 536 Indexing and Abstracting, as well as 544 Information Retrieval Systems. Both classes are off to relatively slow starts, with the residency happening in the second week of the quarter for the first time this year.

Working slowly on my portfolio - I need to turn it in to Stuart by mid-week next week at the latest (my own deadline). It needs to be approved by him by Jan 23....Hopefully it will all go smoothly. I'm trying not to stress about it too much, but I can feel the stress level rising anyway (evidenced by over-reacting with the kids tonight at bed time).

I really can't wait until the portfolio is out of the way...

Still need to get working on the Katrina article too. Paul and my conference presentation proposal was accepted - we're going to Hawaii this June! Now I've got to try to get some funding for the trip.

We moved all the kids into one room and all the musical instruments into S's vacated room. Seems to be working out OK, though not all of the kinks have been ironed out yet.

Raining hard tonight.