School is over for the semester. I managed to come through pretty well. Enjoyed the classes, and looking forwards to continuing in the fall.

I went apartment hunting and found new place for the coming year, a one-bedroom flat at on the north side of Lake Monona. It’s not on the lakeshore side of the street, but it’s pretty close, and it’s a nice area where lots of other grad students live. The address is 1346 Morrison St # 1, Madison, WI 53703-3812.

I’ve been climbing and sailing a bit already, and plan to do a good bit more this summer. Believe it or not, there is good climbing only an hour north of Madison, with hundreds of routes, and the lake sailing is pretty darn good too.

I’ll be heading to LA on May 30th for Desmond’s 2nd annual beach champagne party, and then up to SF for two weeks. After I load up the truck, I fly back to Madison on June 14th to start a summer class that runs until mid-July. I may have to zip over to Paris for a couple of days somewhere in there for AdMonsters Europe… By that point I’ll be moved in, and can take the rest of July off, before heading out to California again in early August for a little surf safari, and then up to Portland for AdMonsters IX. And then back to Madison for the start of the fall semester on September 2.

What am I reading? William Cronon’s Uncommon Ground and something called Road Ecology.