May flowers and such
So, after a March full of bad news, things are looking up. An article I wrote with a colleague (Now it's Necessary: Virtual Reference Services at Washington State University) was selected as a featured article in the Informed Librarian's May issue. And I seem to be making progress on my good old library anxiety article that has been many years in the writing. Also, my summer class has 25 students (which is an unexpectedly large enrollment for a 1-credit information literacy class - I hope I can keep up). And I'm doing some interesting projects at work but not any that should take up my whole summer.
Bea's school mixed up the classes and students for summer, and she seems to be really enjoying the new group. She misses some of her friends but seems much happier at drop off and pick up times so far. It helps, I'm sure, that summer classes are much smaller and so there isn't as much chaos in the room, but it's good to see her managing the change so well.
We had a riot of tulips at our place this spring. One of the joys of your first spring in a new house is seeing what grows and blooms. We're going to have a whole hedge of lemon mint, I think, and lots of succulents with itch-making sap, and hopefully (if they grow) some sunflowers along the fence. My clematis from our old place survived the move, as did my rose, and they seem content in their pots so far.
We need a new bathroom faucet, and I know this is something I should talk to our land lord about, but there's a part of me that knows I could put in a new one myself, and I really want to try. For some reason it seems like this would be fun and empowering. Please tell me that replacing a faucet isn't fun, and I will curtail my strangely overweening plumbing ambitions.
Bea's school mixed up the classes and students for summer, and she seems to be really enjoying the new group. She misses some of her friends but seems much happier at drop off and pick up times so far. It helps, I'm sure, that summer classes are much smaller and so there isn't as much chaos in the room, but it's good to see her managing the change so well.
We had a riot of tulips at our place this spring. One of the joys of your first spring in a new house is seeing what grows and blooms. We're going to have a whole hedge of lemon mint, I think, and lots of succulents with itch-making sap, and hopefully (if they grow) some sunflowers along the fence. My clematis from our old place survived the move, as did my rose, and they seem content in their pots so far.
We need a new bathroom faucet, and I know this is something I should talk to our land lord about, but there's a part of me that knows I could put in a new one myself, and I really want to try. For some reason it seems like this would be fun and empowering. Please tell me that replacing a faucet isn't fun, and I will curtail my strangely overweening plumbing ambitions.