A is for Attempting

 

This month I have decided to participate in the April A to Z Blogging Challenge.

I've talked about it a bit, but.. Somewhere along the way I decided that I wanted to spend some time challenging my writing ability, in a variety of ways. As I mentioned in January, I'm not too big on New Year Resolutions - rather I prefer to set myself goals as I go through life, to keep myself interested. It's hard to say in January what I will need to be working on mid-way through the year, much less by December.

And so in January-February, the writing challenge with Victor, and now April A to Z. This means I will attempt to post every day but Sunday (after today), with each post having a topic that corresponds to the next letter of the alphabet. I've decided that this week the theme will be "things I enjoy" though am not certain that all the weeks will have a theme. Since posts will be every day, expect a range of topics, and if you have suggestions for a particular letter, let me know! I love audience participation :)

If you click on the A-Z link to the right it will take you to the list of the other 1,000+ people who are participating in the challenge. Go visit and maybe you will find some new favorites!

Good morning, Mountains!

It's not the absolute best picture because I only took it with my phone, but the mountains were SO gorgeous on my way to work this morning I just had to stop to take a moment to appreciate and share them!

Geek Love is..

"Oh no..! Don't wear a red shirt to the conference! That means you'll never come back!"

Life happens..

Sorry posts have been a little sparse lately! I've been preparing for the April A-Z Blogging Challenge (More on that on April 1, but click on the link to the right if you are curious!) as well as doing some writing for other things. And then, ya know.. life.. happens..

Around here we are gearing up for the end of the semester (Graduation!) and the transition into summer (my busiest time! eek!) so my days have been pretty packed. Ever get that feeling like you are going from meeting to event to other thing, without stopping to breathe in between? That's been me the last couple days. This morning I literally made piles on my desk of what I needed to bring to each meeting so that I could just walk in and  exchange what I was carrying around without having to think about it.

My list of things "To Do" is growing unconscionably long and every time I get an actual spare moment to look at my email it just gets longer. One of the things we've had going on is interviews for a position on campus. I thought it was interesting that a couple candidates have mentioned the "24 hour rule" for responding to emails and tasks.  I thought that was a nice concept, if a bit optimistic. I have always tried to respond to things as soon as I can but have never put a time limit on responses. I find myself wondering if that would cause more stress or decrease it by making the list of things set within a more definite timeframe.

Interesting to ponder though I don't think it is a change I will be making right now.

How is the Spring wrapping up for y'all? Everyone keeping their heads above water?

A Bonny St. Patrick's Day

I just realized that three of my last four posts had to do with holidays of sorts. So, why not make it an even four of five and say, "Happy St. Patrick's Day!" Today we spent the morning working on house stuff, and the afternoon near Golden hiking with the fabulous Katie. 

Toward the end of the hike there was this neat wooden walkway. Part of it had quite a bit of fire damage. Not sure what happened there, but it was a pretty neat place to walk!

                                

Beware the Ides of March

image from: www.regards.com

This day always reminds me of high school Latin Class (yes, I'm waving my nerd flag right now..). We used to translate Roman poetry and accounts of historically significant events and it was actually a lot of fun. We even made one infamous movie adaptation of the story of Persephone and the pomegranate seeds.

The Ides of March of course, is famous because it was the day that Julius Caesar was stabbed in the back 23 times by the members of the Roman Senate. It's humorous to me that people like to say that Latin is a useless dead language and yet there are definitely elements of the Roman culture that are still influential today as well as a slew of words that are taken directly from Latin that we use every day (agriculture, sinister, gubernatorial..).

Anyway, yesterday was Pi Day (also Einstein's birthday) and today is Ides of March. It's a geeky holiday week. Enjoy!