RBOC: Links Edition

• May has pretty much come and gone and I realize its been over a month since I've updated the blogosphere on the minutiae of my life.
• I've also noticed that my rate of posting this year is less than half of what I was doing last year. A while back I decided to use blogging as a reward for writing. That system never really got off the ground but I have been writing--academic writing that is--up a storm so there is just less time to blog. This is a good thing but I miss thinking in a bloggy way about my life.
• I have continued my Twitter experiment but find I use it more to follow than to tweet. I like to tweet but often get lost in other people's worlds and forget about my own.
• I'm using TweetDeck and can also follow Facebook friends.
• My Facebook friends are not as interesting as my Twitter friends.
• Personally I think Twitter is old news now that NIH is in the act.
• I've come to the conclusion that reward systems don't work well for me. I either get into the act of doing something and the doing is the reward itself or I just don't.
• I haven't gotten back into physical activity yet this summer--especially my core plans--but there is still time and hope.
• I have made some progress on my summer reading lists. I've read two of the fiction books, added and read a third, and have just started Always Coming Home by LeGuin. For the nonfiction I'm reading three of the books at once.
• You can keep up with the progress by joining me on GoodReads.
• I have a few Barnes & Noble giftcards and am looking forward to a day of shopping.
• Angel is home and working. There is much more to be said on that but I'll leave that for its own post.
• Termites are still swarming. It seems this can go on for 3 months after treatment. Unfortunately a colony seems to live in the attic directly above the bathroom. Termites in the tub--not so pleasant.
• Family news continues to be bad. There seems to be a cancer outbreak in both mine and b's families.
• The economy is hitting my family extremely hard. I find myself asking--where do people go when they are out of options?
• I'm working on grant #2. I need a full draft by Monday night so b and I can go camping for 2 days. The finished product needs to be routed by June 9th.
• We'd like to go back to the lake and spend two days paddling but b has just informed that it will be 90 degrees both days. Between the heat and the grant I may decide to stay inside.