Well I've joined the 21st century with a blog of my own. Thanks to Bridget really. I love reading her blog and finding out what she is up to, so I thought it was only fair to give her something to read as well. Anyway, many of you and I talk to regularly, so you know what's up in Elaine-world, but many of you have missed some of the details. So here is a much abbreviated recap of the last couple years.
June 2002 - Graduated from UO Yay!
August 2002 - Moved to San Jose and started MA Linguistics program at SJSU.January 2003 - Started going to a vineyard church in Palo Alto, met many wonderful friends!
April 2003 - Started a part time job at working on a Spanish machine translation project.August 2003 - Back to school, started going full steam ahead on my MA thesis on prepositions in Garifuna (language spoken in Belize).
May 2004 - Graduated SJSU with MA Linguistics, finished thesis...whew...that was a rough year.
June 2004 - Started working full-time at the same speech technology company on various machine translation projects.November 2004 - Went to Belize with a wonderful woman who I worked on my thesis with to visit the place I studied so much about. It really deserves way more than one post, but like I said, this is a recap.
February 2005 - Moved to an apt closer to work.May 2005 - My crazy friend Rebecca got me hooked into training for a triathlon.
June 12, 2005 - First sprint distance triathlon! Woo hoo! I did it!
June 15-July 1 2005 - Went to France for my friend Karen's wedding...boy do the French know how to do weddings...
then took Wes romping around my old stomping grounds in Barcelona.
August 20, 2005 - Went to my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary in LA.
August 21, 2005 - Quarter century birthday, very anti-climactic really.
And that just about brings us to today...September 7, 2005. Home sick from work, just a cold, but a nasty one, writing a blog to catch up with my friends and family. I'm working, I'm training for my next tri on Sept 18th, and waiting to see what God does next. I hope you enjoy my updates. Love you all,
Elaine
Very cool! A linguist, a triathlete, now a blogger! :)
ReplyDeleteWow, I'm really touched to be known as "crazy friend Rebecca" :) Still, I can't be held responsible for current actions. ;) Love ya!
ReplyDeleteYay!!! I'm so glad you decided to do this. I'll be checking back frequently :)
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