Quick update: School is going well. I'm especially enjoying my GIS course and consulting. The consulting is a really good experience although our client is a bit frustrating. It's typical small ngo issues though. The executive director knows a lot about what the org is doing service-wise and absolutely nothing about running an organization...and therefore the board of directors has no idea what their role and duties are. We definitely have our work cut out for us.
Last week, I was sick, so I didn't go to school Monday morning or Tuesday. (I did go Monday afternoon b/c I didn't want to have to make up my EMT lab.) I'm feeling much better though.

Fun stuff: Friday night, my neighbors and I went to this restaurant a couple blocks up the street that has jazz artists on Fridays and is also well known for good desserts. So we went up there for some jazz and I had a glass of wine and this fantastic chocolately goodness called the bomb which is a shell of chocolate cake with chocolate mousse on the inside.....yummy!
Then Saturday, a friend of the neighbors, who I met through them, had an open house followed by a cocktail party for prospective clients because he finally got his recording studio all finished, so I went to that with the neighbors to support him.

This week I start training for the Pittsburgh Half Marathon. I did 2.1 miles today! (ok, I walked a tenth of a mile every half mile, but it's a start, and I've been sick.) Any contributions to the Mary needs running shoes are more than welcome. This whole marathon thing is expensive! It was $65 just to register. Amanda is definitely coming out to run it with me, and Liz and Lisa are thinking about it. The marathon is May 3.

And a couple pictures:

me and the girls at a friend's birthday party

me, the neighbors & Jesse (Jesse is the tall one)