It's been a hectic few days, so I'm very glad the weekend is here. In grad school I only had to worry about one research project. At NRL I'm working on three different projects! Then on Thursday the tread came off my front passenger tire while I was driving on the beltway. Both my front tires were almost bald, and the DC freeway system is not in the best of conditions. The tire still holds air; it's just missing the tread. But when the tread came off it ripped everything out of my wheel well, including the wires to one of my side blinkers and the valve to my windshield wiper fluid tank. You can imagine my initial panic when I pull over and see a whole bunch of liquid pouring out of my car. I stopped by a tire place in Alexandria yesterday and got a pair of new tires, but that set me back almost $300.

Today Kelly and I went and saw the Simpson's Movie. It was actually funny. It wasn't as good as one of the classic Simpson episodes, but it was much better than recent Simpson episodes.