The Joy of Stats

First, my interview is Feb. 12 for all who are curious.

Now on to the main topic: statistics

Blogger is run by Google, which has Google Analytics, which, for someone who loves stats, is amazing. I started using it to analyze this blog partway through Dec. It tells me how many people visit, where they live, what browser is used, etc.
My favorite, of course, is seeing where everyone who reads this is located. In the past month or 2, I have had 28 site visits from 14 cities in 4 countries. Whoever my random reader in Honduras is, hi! I know who my visitors from the UK and Australia are, and of course the rest are from the U.S. Anyways, I find this fascinating even if the rest of you don't.

lots of news & pictures

First off, and most exciting, I've been asked to come to Pittsburgh for a job interview for a research associate position with HPW Associates. I am, obviously, quite excited about that. Please pray that all goes well. I would absolutely love to move back to Pittsburgh.

Second most exciting update, Marshall and I now have a dog. His dad found her on a work site last week, and brought her home. Marshall called the animal shelter and vet and no one has claimed her. She is an absolutely adorable 8 pound ball of fun and sweetheartness (yes, I probably just made that word up). I went to visit Sunday-Monday and fell in love with her instantly.
Everyone, meet Chloe:


In not so good news, Marshall found out last week that his company is going out of business at the end of February, so he will be losing his job in about a month. Hopefully, something turns up soon for him.

Also this month, Liz, Lisa, me, and some other friends had our annual trip to French Creek. Here are a few pics from that:

Dinner time


On the frozen lake (there were people ice fishing!)


The random Spanish sign in the woods on the way to Hopewell Furnace



In the furnace

awesomeness!

If anyone's interested in local East African music, this guy traveled around Uganda and Rwanda making recordings of local music in 2006. It was recently released, and you can now buy the album for a donation of your choice here: http://ensigo.bandcamp.com/album/east-africa-in-binaural?autoplay=true
All proceeds go to Ensigo, an organization that "empowers African musicians to utilize one of their continent’s greatest resources (music) to creatively overcome all forms of human poverty". Go check out their website here, it seems like a great organization.

job potential

I applied for a job in Pittsburgh that I would really really love to get. It's with a nonprofit consulting firm which is one of my top 2 ideal jobs. Also, Kevin (my old boss from the Johnson Institute and my professor) knows some people there, and sent them an email about me.
Keep your fingers crossed and say lots of prayers!

New Years

I headed to VA for New Years to spend some time with Marshall. We welcomed in the new year at a party at his friends Ian and Allie's in West Virginia. Ian had to work kinda late, so we stopped at the racetrack on our way there for dinner and slot machines. They had some deal where you got $25 if you signed up for some player's choice club, so we each signed up, and got $25 each for free to play with. I ended up winning $50! yay for free money. We used it to buy dinner and go out for breakfast the next morning. We had a lot of fun at Ian & Allie's :) Marshall had to work New Year's day in the afternoon, so I headed back to PA and back to work the next day.



Last night, Liz, Lisa, and I had a girl's night and our own little Christmas celebration. We went out for dinner at this super cute little Indian restaurant in Philly which has delicious food and opened presents, then came back here to watch a movie and drink tea. It was so nice to hang out just the three of us. We haven't really gotten to do that much lately with everyone's crazy work schedules.



I hope you all have a wonderful 2010!