Treading, treading, Friday!

Whew, what a totally exhausting work week. Still having growing pains adjusting to this level of management, dealing with many competing interests from a variety of quarters. Much of it is reactive, but I try to carve out a piece for myself.

On that note, one of the biggest developments is that I think I've stumbled onto a research project that might be pretty rewarding intrinsically as well as in all of the professionally valued ways (in that it will easily spin off into conference presentations, a publication, etc.). Now I just have to do the lit review to see if anyone's beaten me to it, in the way I've conceived it. And, it would make a decent contribution to the professional literature too, so it's not entirely out of self-interest (it's bound to be service-oriented coming from this field, eh?).

Earlier this week I had a hard time sleeping because I was spinning on what plants I could plant: hostas, tomatoes, alyssum, etc. I hope I get time to dig in the dirt this weekend. It's obvious that's where my brain wants to be.