I've been back for all of two weeks, and it already looks like Semester 3 in Virginia is going to be rather busy. I think I've said that at the start of every semester in the past 3 years, so let me qualify this a little further: reaaaaaaly busy.

So the good news is I managed to get a paper published in Automated Software Engineering. The acceptance rate was under 15% this year, so that's Very Good News. The paper is titled 'Modeling Bug Report Quality' and I'll be presenting it in Atlanta, Georgia, in November.

I spent about two months at home last year around this time. This year -- not so lucky. I've been home for about a week and a half, and I'm already halfway on my way back to Virginia! Literally so, actually; I fly back August 14th. Also I'm already aching to get back to work. Wes' adviser telepathy caught on to this yesterday; he sent me some reading to do. So yeah... not quite the same as last summer in terms of time management.

I arrived here on my 23rd birthday after a long and uneventful flight from Dulles; thanks for Isabelle to getting me there. Since then I've been seriously easygoing (but without the Malibu). I've been running every day, and it's been getting significantly easier as a result. I've taken to doing a bike ride after some of my runs, so hopefully I'll still be able to bike after I get back

My mom has a go-kart car these days, so I've spent quite a bit of time getting the hang of driving a manual. (Note that I was able to obtain a picture of my mom *near* the car; this is rare. Also note The Nephew and The Brother-in-law.) This is the first manual I've driven by myself (i.e. without anyone else in the car). I've also clocked quite a bit of time with my dad sitting next to me, which I imagine must have looked somewhat comical. Changing gears still requires a little bit of thought, but I'm mostly 'safe' on the road now :-p Unless anything unexpected happens, of course, in which case my first instinct is to stall the car.