Life With Frenchie

I will be honest and admit that, before this morning, I had never heard of Randy Pausch. I still don’t know much about him. I have learned that he is a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. On September 18, 2007, Pausch delivered his ‘last lecture’. In his lecture, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams”, Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to students on how to achieve their own goals. Not only is the lecture now available online for millions to view, but there is also an ABC special with Diane Sawyer that will air this Wednesday, April 9, at 10 PM (Eastern) and the book was released today. I have not yet had a chance to view his lecture (stoopid work firewall!) but I am going to go ahead and post it for everyone else to enjoy.

Wow, could my life be any crazier right now? I mean, seriously, everytime I turn around I’ve got something else going on. Things just keep piling on lately.

Anyways, I’ve given up on trying to “catch up” and will focus on going forward.

Around the homestead, things aren’t so much different. Yeah, I’m still furiously trying to plan a wedding while working, helping run a Girl Scout troop, study (and I use that term very loosely) for exams, and ummm…oh yeah - breathe!

On the Girl Scout front, cookie sales were amazing this year! Our girls worked their butts off selling. A lot of them showed up for weekend cookie booths and when the going was slow, they hoofed it from house to house for the second time around (they do that in pre-sales). Now, camping starts for our girls. They have a troop camping trip next weekend so that they can refresh their memories about their responsibilities while camping. Also, the Neighborhood Encampment is coming up in May. Encampment is open to all the girls in our Neighborhood, which is about 100 girls right now, and it allows the different age levels to experience camping together. This year, our girls chose a “Wet ‘N Wild” theme. The activities for the weekend will all center around water. I’m sure the girls are going to just love that! Too bad I have to put myself on lockdown so I can have some inkling of hope of passing my exam this May!

In other news, MM brought home straight A’s again this quarter! Her school chorus put on their spring concert last week, which we attended. While I was talking to her friend’s mom, the assistant principal came up to EP and said “Your daughter is a very good guitar player!” I didn’t get to hear the rest of the conversation, but EP said that the vice principal had MM go up to the front office of the school and play some Beatles songs for the administrators! *BIG HUGE FREAKIN’ PROUD MAMA GRIN*

Well, it’s time to get some grub and MM needs the computer to finish her Girl Scout Sign of the Rainbow award.

While, I’m gone, hop on over and check out EP’s new blog! It’s about appraising.