ANR Adventures

I am heading out on vacation tomorrow. That means I spent much of the week trying to check things off the list that aren't due until early August.

The weeds continue to grow, despite the heat. I, however, have avoided the gardens for the last 2 weeks, and perhaps this weekend as well. When we first moved in the gardens were overgrown, or lush' as the previous owner described, and hummingbirds were everywhere.

Budget meetings were held this week. It was nice to be in the Davis building and see more people than I saw last week! Also nice, and timely for our budget discussion, was the Governor's signing of the state budget. We discussed much about the increased support for our work.

I went back to the office this week! My plant didn't survive the 16 months without a drink. Other than that, everything was intact.

A little boredom sounds good right now. Merit and promotion package reviews are over, but time still seems to be inadequate for the workload. I think it is due to the short week whereby the number of meetings didn't decrease, but were rather crunched into fewer, longer days.