The Final Countdown!

I don't know why today marks the beginning of the final countdown, but we had 17 days until the OA when we woke up this morning, and we are pumped! Having spent the first year (almost) of our relationship split long distance between Boston (MGHIHP for NP School) and DC (GWU for Law School), Matt and I are very good at whittling down remaining days. We do the old "if you don't count today, and you don't count the day of the OA" and "if you don't count the weekends" and pretty soon, the OA is tomorrow. But, I know it actually will be tomorrow before I realize and, pass or fail, the Monday after Matt's OA is September 14th - an official fall date for sure. I am doing my best to enjoy the rest of summer 2009, and my best effort is pretty good.

My ten day vacation in Cape Cod with the Hugheses and Maine with Mom, Lisa, Becky and Matthew was sensational. I took hundreds of pictures and got a few fabulous ones. I kept saying that I have no idea how one hundred and fifty years of history were captured on film before the advent of digital photography. This is not completely true. I have a large wooden box of photos from my semester abroad in Australia that answer that question in a word: badly. But now that I have a digital camera and the magical powers of Picasa the pictures are really improving.

Matt, Toby and I have a goal to work out everyday through 9/9/09 (when we'll drive to a fancy hotel in our nation's capitol). Today we ran to, along and home from the Delaware River Waterfront. It was a lovely evening, even Camden looked good, and I am nice and sleepy now.