Is Spring sprung?
Oct. 12th, 2019 05:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbcWe have a very moist winter here in Tāmaki makaurau. Not Vancouver moist, but moist. Our property has very clay soil so we are surrounded by wet sponge-like soil in winter, which dries into cement in the summer. Unless you copious water said soil every day in summer.
Fuck that. For environmental and fiscal reasons. Though we do recycle my bathwater every day in the summer months, to water the garden and fruit trees. The front grass we let wither.
Usually by the beginning of October we are regularly topping out around 20-22C each day. We've only hit 20 a couple of times since April. But we are in the season when it feels cool in the morning, steamy in the afternoon, and...perfect in the evening. We're also back on Daylight Savings Time, so the evening are actual evening again. I haven't spent the entire weekend in the garden yet this season: school work and work work have precluded that. But I have been getting bits done and I do feed the citrus trees once a week. Which they love. We got our usual bounty of oranges (today I'll removed the last of the harvest), a few lemons and a handful of limes. The lime tree is a newbie, so any limes were a bonus. Also limes in Aotearoa are vilely expensive.
But I digress.
This week I finished my final assignment for the coursework component of my Masters degree. I only have to give a wee presentation and I'm done. The last assignment is my research proposal for next year'sthesis dissertation, so I'm in good stead. But because of workload issues I want to try and crank out the dissertation in the first half of next year. That requires getting ethics approval for my research before the end of November (Aotearoa is pretty much closed from 15 December-31 January, which is awesome unless you need to get shit done). Hence my getting the last assignment done over a month early. I'll pitch it to a purported supervisor for next year and hopefully get the ethics application in shortly. I'm excited about the proposed project!
We also have a "restructure" hanging over our heads at work, though indications are that will be clarified in a fortnight or so--just as I leave for Europe for holidays and work. So I'm tidying my calendar up to potentially triage team members through that. Not a fun part of leadership.
Stew for dinner tonight, followed by a very late rugby game on telly. COYBIG.
Fuck that. For environmental and fiscal reasons. Though we do recycle my bathwater every day in the summer months, to water the garden and fruit trees. The front grass we let wither.
Usually by the beginning of October we are regularly topping out around 20-22C each day. We've only hit 20 a couple of times since April. But we are in the season when it feels cool in the morning, steamy in the afternoon, and...perfect in the evening. We're also back on Daylight Savings Time, so the evening are actual evening again. I haven't spent the entire weekend in the garden yet this season: school work and work work have precluded that. But I have been getting bits done and I do feed the citrus trees once a week. Which they love. We got our usual bounty of oranges (today I'll removed the last of the harvest), a few lemons and a handful of limes. The lime tree is a newbie, so any limes were a bonus. Also limes in Aotearoa are vilely expensive.
But I digress.
This week I finished my final assignment for the coursework component of my Masters degree. I only have to give a wee presentation and I'm done. The last assignment is my research proposal for next year's
We also have a "restructure" hanging over our heads at work, though indications are that will be clarified in a fortnight or so--just as I leave for Europe for holidays and work. So I'm tidying my calendar up to potentially triage team members through that. Not a fun part of leadership.
Stew for dinner tonight, followed by a very late rugby game on telly. COYBIG.
