This spring break I:

• graded 180 one page essays and another 160 pages worth of research proposals
• made my peace (I think) with my university’s intricate purchasing and hiring process…
• gratefully watched my neighbors chop up and cart away the massive section of a redwood tree that made its way from their yard to mine during a big storm
• read about the Wisconsin Republican Party’s attempt to get environmental historian William Cronon’s e-mail correspondence through a Freedom of Information Act request (here, and in his own words here)
• expressed my undying thanks, again, to the geniuses at the Apple Genius Bar
• worked on getting an article ready to send out for publication – after a much-needed kick in the pants from a former advisor
• cancelled my day-trip to the hot springs in Big Sur after the highway between here and there fell into the ocean  : (
• contemplated doing my taxes
• watched an awesome movie about pastry chefs competing for France’s top pastry-chef honors.  The suspense almost killed me!
• stocked my freezer with 6 jars of Vegetable Jalfrezi made from the recipe in this cookbook
• cleaned and renovated my chicken coop, and moved in four adorable new little fluffballs!  : )

(inspired by my friend Annie’s regular The Week that Was posts on Bird and Little Bird)