I now interrupt my regularly scheduled programming...

Oh who am I kidding? I have the attention-span and dedication of a fig right now, thanks to this absolutely BEEEEEAUTIFUL weather! I know I've said it before in several ways, but the spring thaw and subsequent bloom is utterly incongruous to my schedule and workload.

That is to say, I am smack-dab in the middle of a stretch of school/work/school/work/other commitments that is 26 days long. Really. 26 days without a 24-hour period free of obligations. I HATE that, and I will probably end up playing hookie a couple times, just to get some precious lounge-time in before running off to the next thing.

At the moment I'm gearing up to researching and writing a paper that's due on Monday. It's for my "Biology of Aging" class, and while the 5-pages and 15-minute presentation parameters aren't particularly frightening, I somehow have to teach myself enough about the accumulation of beta amyloid in the brain and it's possible links to dementia to present to a class of PhD students and my professor. It's going to be... ugly. And embarrassing.


Before I go, I want to take a few minutes to tell you about what's coming up in my garden! We finally got a goooood rain storm last night, which is a big relief.
Here's what's planted:
- beets (Detroit red variety-- tons of them, like 6 rows)
- kale
- carrots
- soy beans
- snow peas
- lettuce (both bibb and mesclun greens)
- radishes (sparkler and French breakfast varieties)
- nasturtiums
- marigolds (petite lion mix, jaguar and scarlet starlet-- which is probably the best name ever) and
- ZINNIAS (starlight mix, pinwheel, candy cane and lilliput-- because I just can't get enough of them)