Nick just walked in, stared at me for a few seconds, then started bobbing up and down. I'm guessing he probably was passing some gas (confirmed), but apparently nothing would come out. I'm sitting on Ryan's Flexsteel sofa watching the Tampa Bay Lightning lead the Calgary Flames 2-1 with 4:00 minutes to go in game seven of the Stanley Cup Finals. Tampa Bay's 2nd OT goal in game six on Friday was awesome, and this game has been one of the best hockey games I've seen in a while.
Texas A&M beat Rice to advance out of the Houston regional yesterday evening. Apparently one of the Aggies hit a grand slam in the top of the eighth to send the Aggies on to victory. They will now travel to Baton Rouge to play LSU in the super regional which determines who advances to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The Aggies went to the CWS once when I was a student there, so I'd love so see them go again this summer. TAMPA BAY WINS THE STANLEY CUP!
Three of the about to be senior class officers had a meeting today to discuss the cadaver memorial. We now have the ball rolling on this project. Briefly, this project was conceived by Matt Harting (class of '03) as a tribute to all of the people who have donated their bodies to our medical school for study by students in gross anatomy class. These people's donation makes it possible for us to study the human body and allows us to understand the relationships each organ has with others. Matt and his classmates wanted to do something to commemorate those who gave their bodies to science, so the cadaver memorial was born. We convinced the school to provide us space for the memorial (in the North East corner of the new leather lounge) and then we chose architect/artist to conceive the project. Now we are in the fundraising part of the process, and we hope to raise somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 dollars. This is no small task, but we are headed in the right direction. Two of the students are going to explore hiring a company to help us solicit donations, and the rest of us are putting together a one-page advertisement to go in the Fall issue of the Alumni magazine for UT-Houston. We'll write a blurb about the project and include a few of the architect's sketches from his winning submission. Hopefully many of the alumni, faculty, and parents of current students will be interested in the project and want to donate money. I can't wait to see the finished page.
I also am currently working on selecting a commencement speaker for next May's graduation. I e-mailed the class asking for names, and I'm beginning to put together a very nice list. The four senior class officers and four faculty members will vote on the final person sometime this summer. I wonder if the students' input will be considered...or why have us on the committee? Several of the faculty members on the committee are pretty cool (including Dr. Ribble, the former dean who interviewed me), so I anticipate the selection process will be very interesting.
Dad is smoke-free 12 days now.
Texas A&M beat Rice to advance out of the Houston regional yesterday evening. Apparently one of the Aggies hit a grand slam in the top of the eighth to send the Aggies on to victory. They will now travel to Baton Rouge to play LSU in the super regional which determines who advances to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The Aggies went to the CWS once when I was a student there, so I'd love so see them go again this summer. TAMPA BAY WINS THE STANLEY CUP!
Three of the about to be senior class officers had a meeting today to discuss the cadaver memorial. We now have the ball rolling on this project. Briefly, this project was conceived by Matt Harting (class of '03) as a tribute to all of the people who have donated their bodies to our medical school for study by students in gross anatomy class. These people's donation makes it possible for us to study the human body and allows us to understand the relationships each organ has with others. Matt and his classmates wanted to do something to commemorate those who gave their bodies to science, so the cadaver memorial was born. We convinced the school to provide us space for the memorial (in the North East corner of the new leather lounge) and then we chose architect/artist to conceive the project. Now we are in the fundraising part of the process, and we hope to raise somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 dollars. This is no small task, but we are headed in the right direction. Two of the students are going to explore hiring a company to help us solicit donations, and the rest of us are putting together a one-page advertisement to go in the Fall issue of the Alumni magazine for UT-Houston. We'll write a blurb about the project and include a few of the architect's sketches from his winning submission. Hopefully many of the alumni, faculty, and parents of current students will be interested in the project and want to donate money. I can't wait to see the finished page.
I also am currently working on selecting a commencement speaker for next May's graduation. I e-mailed the class asking for names, and I'm beginning to put together a very nice list. The four senior class officers and four faculty members will vote on the final person sometime this summer. I wonder if the students' input will be considered...or why have us on the committee? Several of the faculty members on the committee are pretty cool (including Dr. Ribble, the former dean who interviewed me), so I anticipate the selection process will be very interesting.
Dad is smoke-free 12 days now.
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