Busy busy busy and now we play

Life has been both routine and incredubly hectic. It has primarily consisted of studying for, and finally sitting, the PE exam on Friday. And now I wait 6 - 8 weeks for the results. I’m honestly not sure how it went, which is definitely not how I wanted to feel after all the studying. But c’est la vie. Or something. 

A couple weeks ago a few of us went up to Fairbanks and got a tour of the CRREL Permafrost Tunnel. I’d never been, and it was pretty amazing. Massive ice wedges, lenses (why hello, topic of my thesis), fossils, hoar ice, and some very ice-rich silt made me a very happy geotechnical engineer. 

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The permafrost tunnel trip was made all the more awesome because I’ve been doing a lot of thermal modelling at work. SVHeat is a powerful program, but will use literally all the processing power you have on your computer. All. Of. It. Its made for some epic model runs, but nifty results. And very pretty pictures. 

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We are now sitting in the Seattle airport as we slowly make our way across the world. We’ll spend two weeks in Kalymnos climbing with Sarah and Dakota, then hang out in the Netherlands for a few days to catch up with all our Euro-peeps. Call it a well-planned reward for the studying and working that’s led up to now. 

I’m so excited to have my life back. 

And you know what this means? A blog update about playing! It feels like its been forever. 

It’s gonna be a good couple weeks.