Quickly...

Anna-Marie told us this morning after washing her hands that she has an ouch in her mouth and pointed wayyy back to that molar that is not yet showing itself. She must feel it under there...it's going to hit next week while I'm out and then Paul's mom will also have an out-of-character Anna to have to deal with while Paul's visiting me in Orlando for 2 nights. Probably not the happy toddler we'd like to portray since it's been since Christmas since Paul's mom has seen Anna. Oh well.

Her teachers haven't said anything about the fact she's been wearing Elmo undies over her diapers this week. Ha. Hahaha. Is that wrong?

And why have we been out the door early each day? Seriously. How is it possible I've been to work before 9am the past 2 days?

Today JR asked me to create a Training Development Plan for my position here. How cool is that? It's to be centered around Leadership Development, Public Communications/Media Relations, and Scholarly Activities (things that would keep me current in the scientific community). These are extra training things I can do in addition to my current position to help develop my career. Plus they're FUN. Am I dreaming? Can I get a hell yeah?

Also, the federal government has decided to once again let civil servants attend science and technical conferences within the US (some politician got smart I suppose). It was rediculous to even put that ban into effect last year to begin with...seriously: NASA wasn't allowed to attend conferences because we apparently spend too much money on it. Really. How iditotic. Don't even get me started. We're NASA. NASA. NASA. We ARE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Stupid politicians. I knew it couldn't last long. Anyway, since that has been relaxed, the result is that now I will get to write more papers and presentations about Space Station Science and present them at different conferences. I'm super excited about that! There's still a limit to only 50 people allowed to travel to foreign conferences, though. Ah well.

Back to work. Fun, fun stuff to go read and write about!!!