Hope fully

The big news of late is that my proposal for a summer research fellowship was met with open arms (wallets) by whomever is important enough to decide which students get the awards and which don't. That means that I can work at the lab full-time this summer without costing Marc a dime, that I will have this to put on my resume and that closure has finally been brought to that two-week-long near-heart-attack that I experienced from the end of February into the wee days of March. The work will be similar to what I'm doing now but I will be able to dig more deeply into it since I will have my full attention to devote. I will likely work a bit at Friday's but the details haven't been ironed out. I have taken a leave of absence, effective after next weekend, to last until the beginning of June. By that time, tests and projects will be handed in and I will have returned from my wild road trip to AGU in Toronto. Do you know what else I will do this summer? I will play some music, damn it (excuse me). I will actually spend time writing songs and playing music with other people. Won't that be lovely?