Scott's Thesis
Well, as most of you know, Scott is in the home-stretch of finishing his masters program! The down side to that is the incredible workload that Scott has taken on the past few months researching, writing, and re-writing his thesis on a daily basis. With a mere 7 days left until his draft will be submitted for graduation approval, Scott has been working pretty much 24/7 on his paper on top of completing his internship hours.
As a result of this, Scott has proudly grown what the two of us now refer to as his "Thesis Beard". Not only is it quite impressive with its natural body and fullness, but he takes care of it daily with his "special beard soap", moisterizer, and combing it daily; consequently, it is imressively soft! And truth be told, I find that beard just plain sexy! (Must be a Jewish thing?)
G-d willing, Scott will have a chance to rest a bit before his tentative graduation ceremony in January.
Gigs, Gigs, EVERYWHERE!
Between the Wizard of Oz (WOZ) rehearsals at school, and Scott's band getting ready to play a gig next Friday, we've been gearing up for this next week! I'm playing in the pit orchestra with my students for the musical WOZ...I had forgotten what it was like to play in the pit orchestra in high school! So much time goes into it. This past week, while I couldn't stay for all of them, scheduled rehearsals went until 6pm, and after that I even had booster meetings and such. I feel like I've been living where I work. I am however, enjoying it very much! I've had such a case of the giggles lately, and at one point in rehearsal, we had to stop because I was laughing so hard I had tears running down my cheeks! I've been just plain goofy. I'm giving this up to being in sleep deprivation, and having crossed into the "slap happy" realm. Luckily, this weekend I'm planning on catching up on my sleep to gear up for those rehearsals until 8pm, and the actual performances!
While Scott, being the good husband that he is and coming to all the shows, he has his own gig with his band on Friday night. I'm a little sad because I hope for Friday or Saturday night shows from his band, Union Shakedown, so that I can attend them! Normally, his bands performances are on weeknights, and are late in the evening, which means that I'm usually asleep before they even play. Plus I have work early the next day. With every day of rehearsal in my classes being extremely important, if I'm not up to par, rehearsal is not going to go well.
So if you're not doing anything this week, perhaps you will make it to WOZ and the Union Shakedown gig!
We're going to do a 5K! The "Turkey Day Trot"
Something I've always wanted to do is a 5k. Well, this year, Scott and I decided we're going to do the Thanksgiving 5K. (There's more than one...we're doing the "Turkey Trot"...the little brother of the Thanksgiving 5K).
We've been practicing around Lake Calhoun weekly (usually 3 times a week), alternating between running and walking. The first few times we got our tushies kicked! But it has been getting easier, and I always look forward to a jaunt around the lake. Despite the weather getting colder, and our short bought of snow, we've been pretty diligent! Neither of us is running to race the other runners, or to beat a time. Really, its about the fact that we're going to complete a 5K.
Obviously, running is more fun when you have your kick-tushy running attire. Here is a picture of the two of us in our hot running gear that we sport around the lake:
WE ARE HOT.
And this picture, is the epitome of Scott. Note the headband, bushy beard, and Ninja-Turtles sweatshirt.
Well, on that note, this is Miriam signing off with a "Cheers" to the upcoming week!
