I've been home for well over 48 hours, so it's about time I write something about what I've been up to since the end of May. I've been fairly busy too.

On May 30, Holroyd, Isabelle, Kinga, Ray, Wes, and I went hiking up Old Rag Mountain, about an hour North of Charlottesville. It was fairly intense, but the view was amazing (see pictures). We took about six hours to get up the mountain and back down, at which point we made up for lost calories at IHOP. Thanks to Wes for dinner and a clear demonstration of his organizational prowess.

The following week marked an even more epic event; I submitted the abstract for my paper on bug reports. More importantly, Isabelle and I made bitterballen around the same time; I believe there may be some kind of reward structure going on here. Either way, they were delicious :-p My only complaint is that I ate too many.

June also saw the start of our lease for the new house (that's Blake, Karolina, Krasi, Sosa, and I). Among our initial 'concerns' was the fact that the previous tenants' stuff was still all over the place when we got our keys. We produced a sizable list of complaints about the house shortly after that. The walls and ceiling in my bedroom desperately needed to be fixed up and painted, and I had a rather ancient AC unit blocking one of my windows. I initially just moved my stuff so I could rent out my old apartment, and finally moved in after San Diego: