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Oh, May… where have you gone? You were a busy lil’ month while you were in your prime, but now look at you. Reduced to a few measly days strung out at the bottom of the calendar, clinging to a page whose 44,640 minutes of fame are nearly over.

Erm… so yeah. I’ve been keeping busy, is what I’m saying. Work has been pretty darn busy, and June is looking even worse in that regard – workfriend Jeremy is moving on to greener pastures, so I’ll be picking up a little bit from him. And at the same time, they decided to ramp up the number of email promotions they send out. Brian is looking to hire a full-time email person to free me up a bit, but he’s out for a while because his wife is having twins tomorrow and he seems to feel that somehow involves him. So I expect to be pulling double-duty, in a sense, for at least the next month. I just hope it doesn’t turn into the six months of double-duty I had before we hired Jeremy.

However, I’ve finally got my evenings free again! Last Thursday was my last web class of the season. I’m not teaching anything this summer, so that’ll give me a few months off, at least. I’ll probably teach the class again in the fall, though, to help justify the time I put into the course packet and planning. So now that my evenings are free, I’m already looking for ways to fill them back up again. I swear: I’m the busiest lazy person I know.

CSSnewbie is still keeping me busy. You’ll be getting a 4-month update soon, but I’ll give you a sneak peek: numbers are about the same across the board, but I made less money again. Uhh… go me. Right now, I just have to tell myself that this is a long-term thing. If I keep at it, I’m sure there will come a time a year or two from now when I’ll look back and wonder what I was so worried about. Right now, though, it’s hard not to wonder if I’m not just filling my time with poorly-paid busywork.

Amanda and I spent our Memorial Day weekend in the backyard, cleaning things up. We borrowed a wood chipper from a work friend and spent one evening last week chipping up the last of the brush that was left over from our great de-Privet-ing adventure last summer. Then this weekend, we took our two wood piles (used for our wood-burning stove, theoretically) completely apart and reorganized them into one pile in one location (right behind the garage, for those that know the geography). It looks a lot nicer now, actually. And we have the concrete slab back there open now. I plan to build a compost bin on half the slab in the near future. Then I can clean up our very literal compost “heap” laying next to the slab — which is built on top of river rock, no less, which should make cleanup a joy.

So what’s the moral of the story? Well, that I’m pretty whiny, I guess. :) But also that I’m keeping busy. And that’s gotta be good. Oh, and I promised Amanda that I’d finally get around to putting up Europe photos in the near future, so that’s something to look forward to.