Valkyrie

No, not Berserk's wife, the movie.  I saw it last weekend, and I'd say it was pretty good.  It's all about one of the plots the Germans had to assassinate Hitler.  Although most people know the outcome (there was someone next to us who seemed surprised when Hitler didn't end up dead, and a few people had to pay for their "treason"), it's well done enough that I caught myself thinking, "they're actually going to pull it off," only to quickly remember that just isn't how history happened.  Anyway, it is certainly an interesting look at WWII, and does a pretty good job pulling you into the stress and tension of fighting against the Nazis from within their ranks.

to finish school, or not...

Contrary to how I previously thought I felt about continuing school, I now find that I'm thinking it might not be so bad.  I still think I would prefer getting a job and starting some kind of career, but I've started to feel like I'd miss doing research.  

Just to clarify, this is not the kind of research you do for classes, where you have to pick a topic, go to the library, find a bunch of sources about your topic, and write about what two conflicting or complimentary points of view, pointing out strengths and weaknesses for each argument and deciding which you think is correct.  If that's what I had been doing with my professors, I think I would have stopped quite some time ago.  

Anyway, I like the research that I work on with my professors.  I like that I'm actually doing something that someone wants to use (We work with a biologist at another university).  It also turns out, that my boss wants to use my research as part of a grant proposal.  That's pretty cool.  With research like this, I'd definitely have something I could use to get a masters.  I'd even have a good foundation for a thesis, or whatever it is masters students have to write.  

I suppose the problem is, that I keep going back and forth about whether I want to keep taking classes.  Anyway, it's something I've been thinking about, and talking about.  Just another option to consider.

In other news, I'm getting married soon.  We're getting ready to send out all the invitations, so those should be arriving fairly soon.  We think we've gotten most of the addresses we need, so hopefully we'll be sending them all out in the next couple of days.