I don’t have any fun pictures to post today, so I thought I’d just write a brief update on what we’ll be up to today and over the weekend – there’s a lot of it!

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Today – I’m enjoying not having to go in to the office early for the first time in a long time today. (I finished collecting data for my first year project earlier this week – yippee – so that will free up a lot of time in my schedule! Double yippee!) After I finish writing this post, I’m planning to spend the rest of the morning working on an assignment for my seminar class. I’ll just have to go to campus before 3:00 for my Statistics lab section . . . speaking of that Statistics, we got our midterm exams back yesterday, and I got the highest grade in the class! #winning!

Daniel is at Duke’s Admitted Students Open House today, which is exciting. I think they’re going to be having lunch in the basketball stadium “Hall of Honor” (or something like that . . . I scoffed at the name, whatever it was), so that’s funny. I’m afraid I don’t know much more about the day than that, although he was reading something last night (a case?) to prepare for something today (a mock class?) . . . I’ll have him update this section later if he wants to. Funny thing: I think having me here this morning with Daniel away has really confused Mirabelle.

Tonight, we’re going to go to an NCAA watch party at a friend’s house. Carolina is playing Ohio tonight, and everyone’s excited! It’s going to be a lot of fun.

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Saturday – I have a lot of things on my to-do list for this weekend, but I should be able to have a relaxing Sunday if I take care of them tomorrow. There’s a lot of cleaning/organizing that needs to go on . . . vacuuming, sorting through my closet (it’s been so warm here lately, that I’ve decided to swap out cool-weather clothes for warm-weather clothes already), etc. . . . as well as more cognitively-demanding stuff . . . double-checking taxes, writing up a protocol for my next study to submit to our ethics board, doing a peer review of a friend’s paper for a course, etc. It will be a busy day, but maybe we’ll top it off with a movie night or something.

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Sunday – Weather permitting, we’d like to visit the NC Botanical Garden. As you saw from my post on Wednesday, it is most certainly springtime in Chapel Hill, and we’ve had “visit the Botanical Garden when everything is blooming” on our list since at least January. Other than that, we’ll do our usual Sunday routine (church, grocery run, etc.), but it should definitely be a low-key kind of day.

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I know I said I don’t have any pictures for today, but a blog post without pictures just won’t fly, so here’s another picture from the beach. Have a great weekend, everyone!