The Argument Clinic

So I have had a stressful couple of weeks, mostly related to grad school stuff that I won’t get into too much.  Just a difficult situation that has been frustrating to deal with.

On a better note though, went to see harry potter 5 on friday 7/13 and enjoyed it.  Thought they did a good job, can always point to a few things that I would have changed, but that’s always the case with movie versions of books.  Helena bonham carter was very well cast as bellatrix lestrange (a little too well…) as was the actress who played umbridge. 

Then this past weekend my sister came up and we went to the troy farmer’s market, was nice to get out and walk around somewhere that wasn’t too much walking for gillian.  Then I got harry potter 7 on saturday around 2…finished reading about 11:30 in the morning on sunday (did break to sleep for a little while).  Read the ending first as usual.  As promised in the subject, won’t give anything away.  Am impatiently waiting for other family members to finish it so we can discuss (I know, I finished early but if I didn’t it would just be a constant distraction from class work, so needed to get it finished in one weekend :)).

Ok…time to start off another work week.  Hopefully grad school-related stuff is a little less frustrating this week, but we will see.

So I know I have been a slacker with blogging this summer.  The weekend before last my family and I went to my cousin larry’s graduation party.  And then the next day my friend caleb and I went to boston for the day.  Walked around quite a bit (did the freedom trail) and heard some irish music in a pub that evening, was gorgeous weather and had a really good time   Even though I did get a sun burn….totally forgot sun screen!  In case you don’t know, putting iced tea on sun burns relieves them quite a bit (read that online somewhere).  Was burning up before that, but put some on it (the real kind brewed from tea bags, not instant obviously!) and it felt completely better a very short time later!  This past saturday we went hiking and I made sure to remember the sun screen then   Went to sleeping beauty mountain, took some pictures from the summit, the lake in the distance is lake george:

Saw several garter snakes (eww!) one of which was eating a frog, looked way too big for it so not sure how successful that ended up being.  Also saw some falcons fly over head when we were at the summit (they live on the cliffs near there) so that was cool!

My grandma’s surgery went well and she is doing better, so we are very thankful for that!

Have an exam this thursday so am looking forward to getting that over with, though not especially happy about likely having to do some studying on july 4th, will try to avoid doing too much that day though…

That’s it for now…