I tend to not post something unless I feel a burning desire to talk about something, so when you see a lack of posts, I'm essentially floating through life taking a day at a time. I am excited about this summer though. I recently implemented an online Kanban board for my department at the university, and after a successful use of it, we got excited and obtained individual boards. Now with a colour optimisation of each facet of my life (OCU, PhD, consulting and personal life) with the handy little hover due dates and the amazing concept of WIP, I feel completely organised and ready to take summer by the horns. My fear of "how can I get all this done" is now "I can get these items done this week" without completely losing it on the overall goals of summer. Woot! I still maintain a calendar of course, but I can actually manage the calendar now thanks to happy prioritisation and WIP.
On another front, I'm slightly jealous of Eric's two week visit to London for time with friends and three small conferences or some sort of work related joy (I think he's confused conferences with wine tastings or something), but I am getting even by making him jealous over taking Elle to St. Louis and Chicago. I don't think Eric understands that he's supposed to be jealous ;) We're still crossing our fingers for the month-long stint in India as a family (thus the nominal money saving efforts of not taking the entire family to the UK in peak season), but I rarely depend on Eric's company being timely with such awesome destinations. They are simply fabulous on coming through on annoying locations like Dallas and Atlanta though :P
Meanwhile, Denver is lovely! The 90 degree weather with zero humidity has resulted in several extra book reading hours on the porch rocking. It seems to be the opinion of Denver's population that this is perfect time to go and exercise. I find this a little confusing as it's a much more appropriate time to go the parks, grill a gigantic steak and fall asleep on the picnic table, but we've already determined that I'm not exactly a great fit for these robust mountain climbing bikers who switch to running if it's snowing. I am happy to report that I have taken the challenge of the P90X series that is definitely kicking my butt and resulting in the loss of 10+ pounds and the rationalisation of more evening picnics.
More to come as the summer wears on! Happy warm days to all :)
