Geraldine Post Easter

Geraldine and I made it into the Easter season. This means a few things:

1) I don't have to learn any new music for the next 50 days
2) I can eat a lot of discounted Easter candy while working on Geraldine until the stores find some other seasonal thing to sell.
3) If I suddenly become fat from eating too much Easter candy and an increase in sitting to work on Geraldine, the stores that sold me the Easter candy will certainly have fun summer-time toys to burn off the candy.
4) I might just buy a hammock and take a nap instead because I'm pretty tired!

I am travelling this weekend to present non-Geraldine research at a conference. My dry-run of my research was well received at my department colloquium last Friday. Maybe it was birthday luck, but I prefer to think it was because I chose a topic that most people don't know anything about, so it's easier to sound like I know what I'm talking about and convince people I am right. :) I have a few changes to make to my handout, thanks to the helpfull comments from friends and colleagues and will entertain myself later this week by drawing arrows and dashed lines all over my handout for viewers like you.

Last week was exhausting but it was also really fun. In addition to writing the first 20 pages of Geraldine, I sang at 5 church services, had two music rehearsals, enjoyed Easter with my inlaws and opened birthday presents. It was a good week, and now I have new gnomes to finish my work for me when I fall asleep. After all, gnomes like discounted Easter candy too.

So now it's Monday and back to work, right? Well.... it took a while to accept that motto. I woke up early and decided that my bed was too warm not to enjoy for another two hours. Usually I feel guilty when I sleep in, but today I just thought about not wanting to have cold ankles and couldn't figure out what I wanted to work on in terms of Geraldine anyways. Nevertheless, I made it to my office during office hours and proceeded to talk to my friends for an hour instead of actually accomplishing anything. Then I sat around in my office for an hour trying to decide what to do. There were no good e-mails to distract me and my pile of notes for my lit review didn't look inviting. I don't have anything to pick up from the library and didn't feel like returning anything. So what did I do? I changed the clock battery and ate my lunch. Knowing that I had about 20 minutes to start something before Kelly's Monday office arrival, I started working on my methods chapter. Low and behold, I wrote 10 pages with ease and managed to accomplish more than change the office clock battery.

Now I will walk to the bus stop, but only after I walk past the department office and eat more discount Easter candy.