Life in Houston

Okay. So I've been in H-town for about two months now and am starting to get the hang of life in the big city. For one this town is soooooo spread out and the traffic is pretty bad so it takes 1-2 hours to get across the city. Plus, I am always getting lost, particularly near downtown and the Galleria. Work is good, and thankfully within walking distance from my apartment. Everyone is worried about the possibility of having to move to Midland or Farmington, New Mexico once the acquistion gets finalized. I try not to think about it much because I dont really want to move (well not to Midland or Farmington at least). Outside of work, life is good. I am keeping busy with arranging my apartment and reading. I am going to start French class again (I guess after being there for 8 months its a "you cant live with them you cant live without them" kinda thing). As far as that goes I cant wait to get back to Europe. Luckily with a company the size of ConocoPhillips that may be possible. So for now I am trying to learn all I can and be as useful as possible. Nothing really eventful is going on here...we got a cold front so its like 60 instead of the 75 degrees it has been for the past few weeks. I am finally getting all the pictures I bought in Paris framed and hung up so that is good. I never realized how expensive frames were. Its amazing, I think the frames cost more than the pictures. Its good that I have some wall space in the apartment so I can hang them all up. Also I was thinking of framing all the theatre books, I thought it might be a nice way to display them...any thoughts?? It is nice to not have to worry about school work on the weekend, although I do have a paper to write....my reasearch paper from France is going to be published in a journal (if I get it revised and shortened). That is going to be pretty cool...me, published! Speaking of I guess I had better go and do that...I will try to keep up with posting on this website at least once a week but we'll see what happens.