try again...

So I had this pretty much updated on Friday and then the internets crashed. It's all over and I passed everything and now have permission from Kate to take a lengthy and well-deserved break before starting on dissertation stuff. So I'm definitely going to take the break.

Nunk's skin problem seems to be returning so we'll be taking her back to the vet yet again at some point hopefully before Wednesday when we leave for Kalamazoo - I'm assuming it's allergies given just how much she improved when she got the steroid shot, so I think we're going to be switching her food. I've been researching pet foods trying to find some that's good for allergy problems that's also made by an ethical, responsible, non-caught-up-in-the-whole-pet-food-recall-thing company. I've found a few. Nunk's currently passed out purring by the laptop as I'm typing this.

Anyway, as far as exams went, they were soul-suckingly terrible and I'm really really glad they're done. Tony's went brilliantly, and he's also passed and ready for diss work after a summer of lots of vacations.

Celebrations:
-Friday afternoon beer on porch at Ho with David
-Friday evening champagne of the cheap, pink and wonderfully silly variety at Drown when Kim finished, followed by more beer back at the Ho in the party room with about half the grad students in the department
-Saturday late morning remarkably not-too-hungover trip up to the outlet mall Banana Republic
-Saturday evening bbq thrown by Kate at her house with various different people somehow involved with medieval type work in some way, shape or form, most notably becoming highly even more entertaining when Kate and Dawn decided that we needed to make mint juleps in honor of the Kentucky Derby and there were suddenly six people in the kitchen ripping through cookbooks and whatnot for recipes to make sure we were doing it right and then trying to figure out how to crush mint without a mortar and pestle, and then making fun of Kate for being a medievalist and not actually owning a mortar and pestle (which made sense at the time) - the bbq also included the revelation that Kate both noticed and was impressed by the fact that I had managed to get my nail polish to match the sweater I was wearing on exam day
-today: crashing for a little while longer and then spending an inordinate amount of time throwing myself together for a dinner date with Tony entirely because I can - Tony's Dad gave us celebratory money to buy ourselves a swanky dinner with so we're going to a place called Melt (quasi-upscale mediterranean/Italian food that seems pretty good - service is a bit bitchy though) and then going to the movie theatre next door to go see Hot Fuzz. And then try to sleep in. I haven't accomplished that yet.

In other big news: Mom and Dad found a house they love and are moving in about 7 weeks or so. The pictures I've seen of the model look gorgeous, though I'm even more excited to see what the house looks like when they've got it decorated and painted the way they want it and not all in various shades of pale builder's beige... YAY!!