nathan and audrey

Hello All!

I know that I have yet to post in looooong time (specially in the blog world). I would like to start being more posty, and will start tonight.

An update on life…

We moved to Champaign-Urbana (always want to say Urbana-Champaign due to the whole UIUC thing) a little over a month ago. We were vigorously preparing for our journey the month before so that explains the lack of blog action. We are currently now getting settled in nicely. The house is almost all the way moved in (2 br, wash and dryer util room, garage, 1100 sq foot condo). We have several photos to hang, a few pieces of furniture to buy, and my portion of the office must be finished.

When we get further along I hope to create a post here with lots and lots of cool photos.

Audrey and I are getting to know the town pretty well now (it isn’t big). We have found our new Sunday date place (and new a priori to to coming to Champaign) in Panera. Oh my gosh! Panera is so amazing. If it only had good coffee it would be the best. I have yet to find a place to purchase my coffee beans from, mostly due to the amazing gift we received just before leaving town (a pound of tanzanian peaberry from Moons). There are parks everywhere here. We can go about 1/2 mile in two directions and come upon huge parks. Really cool. We live right across the street from a corn field and soy beans! Awesome!

I established my bike route to school, and ridden almost every day I go to school. In a similar vain I have found the ARC (rec facility at uiuc) to be an amazing place to work out. I have been lifting consistently now for a few weeks . The bike route is roughly 5 miles and takes around 20 minutes one way.

We are still trying to figure out the best places to hang and eat and get coffee at and all the other things you like to do in the city you know and love. We found this amazing yogurt place with some new friends last Saturday. It was amazing. You get a cup and put as much yogurt and toppings you want in it, and then they weigh it to tell you your price. For some reason mine was almost twice the cost of Audrey’s… oh well.

On one other note, I have recently started using the GTD methods as written in David Allen’s book on GTD. It has been an extremely interesting process to look into. I think in the future I will implement it more fully, but for now the demands on my life are not quite high enough to use it in its fullness, but I can say that it has already made my organization of tasks and projects and filing so much easier and more efficient.

I wil be posting more about the grad school part of life in another post, so don’t worry about lacking that exposition.

For now I will finish. I hope this website becomes more useful as we use it more to post on life and stuff. Thanks for reading!

-Nathan