Post-Thesis

Alright. We're making progress. I finished the marathon, one term paper, one regular paper, my thesis, two class presentations, and my oral foreign language requirement. All I have left is two exams (one in class and one take home) and a presentation during the LL.M. trip to Talloires.

It's a strange thing to feel as though you're almost finished when you have two exams yet to go.

More Photos

Though they weren't taken by me. I've discovered that after the marathon every runner gets an email trying to get them to buy professionally taken photos.

Check'em out. Can't say I'm overly impressed by any of them.

There is also a slew of Tufts pictures.

Sheesh. You'd think it was a wedding with all these pictures.

Boston Marathon Photos

Here you go.

Feeling pretty sore today, I've got to say. I felt better right afterwards.

Traditions

One of the traditions at Tufts is for different campus groups and organizations to paint a cannon that's on campus. I have no idea why it's done, or even why there's a cannon on campus. But, last night the Tuft's Marathon team took their turn. Check out the picture below!



Everybody's excited.

May

So, I'm a bit crushed right now with papers and finals, but I wanted to get the word out about my tentative plans for May.

First, after my last final on May 5th, the LL.M. program has a five day trip to Talloires, France for a conference of sorts. I'll be in France from the 5th at least until the 10th. My actual graduation from Fletcher isn't until the 17th, however, so I may try to extend my trip and explore a bit of France and Spain. We'll have to see. Irene will still be in school, however, so she won't be able to join. Of course it would be better to have her along but, I have to say, I am still quite a lucky duck.

Graduation is the 17th. This is my fifth graduation or whatever, so it's all kind of passé. But, St. Paul's has classes until early June (the 10th?) so I was thinking of coming down to visit Westminster and S. Maryland or a while (10 days? Two weeks) at the end of May. Is everyone going to be around for this period? No trips to Asheville or anything?

There's another post coming about my plans after May, but let's start with this. Wanna see me?

Happy Easter!

I was just telling my roommate Steve about how we used to have Easter Egg Hunts when I was little. And how there'd always be that one egg that no one could find, and would remain hidden until the summer, when the smell would give it away...

Love.

Naval War College

Today I took a field trip with my class on Transpacific Relations to the Naval War College. It's a beautiful place, right on the water in Newport, Rhode Island. Our Professor is full time faculty there (he's only adjunct at Fletcher).

Our Professor arranged for the whole trip, which was really quite thoughtful. We toured the Museum of the Naval War College and got two briefings from the faculty there--the first dealt generally with US/East Asian relations, but the second was a fairly detailed analysis of Taiwan's preparedness vis-a-vis a Chinese attack.

Pretty sobering stuff, especially when at least one of the students in the class is Taiwanese...

Esme

You probably remember my friend (and former roommate) Andy Sinclair. He was the tall one. He and his wife just had their first child: Esme Sinclair.

They've already got a website for her as well as pictures up on flickr.

She's going to be a web-savvy kid.