June

It's weird to think that my time in Pullman is coming to a close. I will surely miss the view of campus from the yard. Ted and I have to be out of our rental house by the end of June, so there is a lot to get done by then.


While I will miss the campus view, I will not be sorry to see these vials go! This is the set-up for one of my wine aroma panels. Each week I have labeled, organized, filled, capped, and washed (not by hand, thank God!) 900 of these suckers, along with conducting the panels. Occasionally I did 1800 of them per week, which was just too much, and really caused my back to ache! Tomorrow I will fill 900 of them for the last time, and Thursday will be my final aroma panel. Yay! Then, I just have to do three days of wine panels with my research wine, which means I will finish all of my research by the end of June.

I raced this past weekend in Hood River. I really wasn't competing, only participating. After getting dropped 8 miles into the first stage, and riding 45 miles solo, I confirmed that I truly had no personal expectations for the race because I truly was okay with it! And, I had a blast in the TT, even though I didn't do very well. I will admit that I considered dropping out of the Saturday road race because my back was not liking the climbing, but I had to finish. I did opt out of Sunday's crit once it was announced that it would not count towards GC. With my herniated disc, Ted's injuries, needing to move by the end of the month, and trying to finish my research ASAP, there was no real reason FOR me to do the rainy crit. Plus, I'm kind of a wuss!