Epixode XL: Girlfriend

The time has come for me to tell you about my most-beautiful girlfriend.

I met Amanda Cox about a year ago at (where else?) the open gym volleyball at the student rec center. We have been together, depending on the reckoning, for about two-and-a-half months. One would think that I would have already posted about her during those two-and-a-half months, wouldn’t one? Well one would be wrong. My apologies.

Amanda is an undergrad here at KU and is studying film and journalism. She comes from Leawood, Kansas (nearby). Below is a photo where I actually caught her doing some homework! Okay, I'm just kidding, it was actually a posed picture.

One thing that is interesting about the two of us is that we share almost nothing in common. Well that’s a bit of an exaggeration. We do share the letters in our first names. In fact, the name Amanda contains the letters A-D-A-M, just in a different order, and with a couple of superfluous characters added on.

The photographs herein (be sure to check the slide-show up top) should be sufficient to convince you that she is a very pretty girl, so I will not belabor the point. What the pictures may not convey, however, is what a sweet, cheerful, wonderfully good-natured load of fun she is. Well she is all of those things and more. She is a delightful person to be with.

The last word for today: one thing that we share in common is that we are both professional models. Below is a photo that some guy took of us for a KU-related project. We did not get paid, so I guess we are in fact only semi-pro models. But the photo looks good, no?

Episode XXXIX: Instruction

As I have mentioned previously, I am now officially being paid to be a Teacher. That is, I am being paid to be a Teacher’s Assistant (TA). I teach two classes worth of Biology 203: Microbiology Lab. Both classes are very good classes, and I rather enjoy teaching the kids. The micro labs are kind of odd in that they use two TAs per lab, one graduate and one undergraduate, and we take turns teaching. The graduate TA tends to teach the more “complicated” lectures and grade the more “important” papers. Below is a picture of me with one of my undergraduate TA co-workers (dig the blue lab coats!)

This class is a Tuesday-Thursday class at 9:30, and my co-worker’s name is Alisha. As many of you may remember, my little sister’s name is also Alicia. So every time someone says “Adam and Alisha” I immediately am transported back to my childhood, playing with my cute little sister. The other interesting thing about Alisha is that she also works in my lab, doing dishes and sterilization and stuff. It's a small world! Or at least a small college town.

The dude circled in the above picture is Ryan, and he is totally cool. He is a lot of fun, and together we get a little wild in lab. Sometimes, in fact, I have seen a (particularly uptight) student or two roll their eyes at us. We tend to do constructive things such as talk about music, fake box, talk about guitar hero, attempt keychain-throwing tricks, watch music-videos and talk about sports. We also find some time to lecture and help students.