On the work front, being a librarian at a SUNY, we're in the midst of an ILS migration that's going to wrap up and go live this summer. I am simultaneously more than ready for it to be done with, already, and occasionally terrified that I'm forgetting some integral thing we need to get done before we're live. Maybe that normal for migrations? Anyway, this has been the biggest brainsuck for the past eight or ten months.
On the school front - yeah, I'm in school again. I probably (maybe?) mentioned I'm doing a certificate program right now for archives. After the class this spring, I've got three more to be done with it. I'm really enjoying the public history classes I've been taking as part of this, and it's been showing me that a) I miss history and b) I've been doing way more public history than I realized as part of what I do in the library. The last paper I wrote was on the history of my piano (turns out it was built in Muskegon), and that has gotten me playing more, as well, so yay school.
On the reading front, I'm aiming for 52+ books again this year, with the additional caveat of not so many graphic novel/comic issues. Not that I don't think they're reading, just that they're kind of cheating on the goal when the goal is to be reading more pages, not more titles. The book unit is just convenient for articulating the goal. I have been dabbling with audiobooks this spring (I had a coupon, and Hoopla is a thing), and made the mistake of starting a trilogy that the third book isn't out until 2020. (City of Brass is the first one. I really enjoyed the narrator in the audio.)
On the writing front... Okay, so like, I never really stop getting new ideas. Characters, scenes, premises. I just don't get them out on paper like I did twenty years ago. So I've got completion/revision goals for this year, and the additional goal of getting stuff down out of my head. Currently I'm working on finishing #208, my NaNo from 2013. It's what I was planning to work on when I sat down in my recliner tonight and ended up updating my website and posting this.
On the gardening front, well, it's March. The gardening front has been pretty quiet since tear-down last fall and planting out the onions. But the garden & flower show is this weekend! I will probably get whatever candy Uncle Sam's is selling; buy some bean, pea, and flower seeds; and enter to win a cubic yard of dirt. (I've considered buying one but don't want to have to schlep it back to the garden from the curb.) I need to prune the apple trees and the grape vine Sunday if the weather cooperates. Then I'll probably do nothing on the garden front till the end of April, and hopefully the ground will be thawed and I can turn it over and plant out seedlings the second weekend of May.
On the other crafting fronts... knitting and sewing are mostly on hold this semester. I'm doing a cupcake project. I've got a list of cupcakes I wanted to try baking, and have six left on the list:
- Pineapple w/coconut frosting
- Carrot w/cream cheese frosting
- Devil's food w/chocolate frosting
- Lime w/lime frosting
- Churro w/cream cheese frosting (first recipe idea from Reddit)
- Lemon w/lemon frosting.
Oh, and my WoW guild is 2/9 bosses into the heroic difficulty of the current raid tier (which is so much better than the first tier this expansion).
Anyway, I've been busy.
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