Finals Week (or Wordless Wednesday)

Today was the official start date of finals at my school.  Got home from work at 5:30 PM.

Prepared for finals by cleaning my desk off.

   

Presentation Thursday, final exam Friday. Homework due next week Tuesday.

Workstation setup.

Time to get to work.

Holiday Spirit

While Milwaukee finally had its first snow fall this past weekend it still doesn't feel like it's time for the holidays.  I'm not into it this year and getting my decorations out has been a chore.  Could be lack of sunlight, could be depression.

Even school doesn't have much in the way of decorations; just these things they stick in the planters.  Of course they're all covered by snow now.

I need to put up my tree.  Maybe that will help.

Darkness

It gets so dark so early these days.  It's hard to stay motivated when I go to work in the dark and come home in the dark.  Plus it's freezing (literally) outside and all I want to do is stay home on the couch with hot chocolate.  This was the view outside my lab on Tuesday at 4 PM.

It should not be this dark this early.  There is one more month ahead of me just like this until the winter solstice. I need to move closer to the equator.

City View

The nice thing about my lab is that is has windows. Lots of windows. A whole row of windows in fact!

The bad thing about the windows is that they're high off the ground. In fact, the bottom of the window is just above my eye level. Most of the time I can only see sky when I look out the window...but if I climb up on the lab bench then I get views like this:

At night.

During the day.

Pretty! Especially now when all the leaves are changing color and with Lake Michigan such a nice blue in the background.

Coxie Pt. 3 (or Wordless Wednesday)

Coxie has recently undergone some severe changes. I'd rather not share Coxie's deep dark secrets but I will share an updated photo.

If you remember my last update on Coxie there is much more going on now. Yay, Coxie!