I become such a slacker about doing my usual web activities when I’m doing a co-op rotation. You spend eight hours in front of a computer and you just don’t want to do it anymore when you get some free time. The next two semesters should be pretty good for me being online, though, since I’ll be taking classes full time this fall and next spring. Summer 2008 I’m hoping to be working full time somewhere, trying to keep my income up, because I doubt there will be any classes offered at UK that I’ll need. Kathy’s son attends Georgia Tech and he co-ops, too, and G.T. offers one summer term, 12 weeks long. All classes that are offered during the regular semesters are also offered during the summer. They do that, she said, for the purpose of helping co-ops, which makes me think the co-op program is a bigger deal there than it is at UK. We have two summer terms, a 4-week and an 8-week, and the more high-level a course is, the less likely you are to find it offered during the summer it seems. That’s one of the caveats of our co-op program: it sets you back about a year in your schooling. I’ve taken a few summer classes when I could to try and offset that, but I’m still not as far along as my peers that haven’t participated in the program. I don’t regret taking part at all, for one because it has been very beneficial to get a taste of the field I’m kind of committing my life to, and also because the idea of graduating is a scary one.

Mine and Todd’s attempts at lizard wrangling today have been unsuccessful. The same little gray lizard has been spotted on his parents’ front porch twice now, and both times he has escaped along the wall when we’ve gone after him. The first time he ducked around my foot, and the second time he ran under my leg when Todd lifted the concrete planter under which he was hiding. Sneaky leezard.

Jeez, so I just remembered the point I was going to make in the first paragraph before I got distracted with discussing the co-op program. I was going to say that I’m itching to make a new layout for this site, and also to get into reading other people’s blogs again. I think the content could use some work, too, removing some unnecessary middle-man pages and just linking pages directly from the sub-sections ‘About, ‘For You’, etc. Who knows when I’ll get around to this sort of thing, though, since I’ll probably work till late August at Lexmark. Todd and I are trying to think of when we’ll get up to Chicago to visit Matt again, and we’re hoping this fall sometime. I may have to take off work for that, or it may be after I’ve stopped working for the term and am in a brief vacation before classes start again. We’re planning to visit a couple of museums we didn’t visit last time, and also to go shopping, since we really didn’t get to before.