Being responsible is exhausting

I’ve been absurdly productive for the entire month of April. I have:

• Revised and resubmitted.
• Submitted this stupid manuscript to its fourth journal (yep, it got rejected from that submission back in October)
• Gotten juuuuuuust about ready to submit my research week paper, pending final approval from co-authors.
• Given a presentation on a fourth project that is finally moving along well.
• Reviewed three papers.
• Gotten a blog for the research center up and running – and it’s lovely!
• Read and taken notes on one published paper a day, every workday
• Written up my goals and very detailed plans for summer fieldwork

Aaaaand…. I have now hit a wall. For the last two or three days, I have been pretty much braindead and exhausted. My grand accomplishments lately have been the following:

• ordered a wedding present for a friend
• printed out directions to a nearby state park, and the trail map, to go hiking this weekend (hooray spring)
• reserved a hotel for when my husband visits me in the field this summer
• considered which cocktails I want to serve at an upcoming party
• made plans for karaoke tonight
• looked up who did the voices on Daria
• spent way too much time figuring out which Zazzle products emblazoned with a cartoon version of my study species I should buy
• went out to lunch (and had a beer! sshhhhh)

(Needless to say, my administrative responsibilities have been rather light lately.)

I don’t think May is going to be nearly as productive as April – I don’t think I can take it…

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