Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

Since I have been in Kansas I have worked over Spring Break. The first year I went back to Utah to work on a grant. During the second one, I ran a research project and wrote a paper for publication. For the third, last year, I went into work every day but St. Patrick's Day writing papers, working on a grant proposal for a class, also and doing a book chapter proposal. This year, I decided to take the week off. The whole week. Read on, to see how it went. Monday--I had a meeting in the morning with a scholar from Germany that I am presenting with at a conference in a couple of weeks. Afterward, we went to the zoo in Kansas City. I bought the expensive tickets so we could ride the tram, the train, the boat, carousel, and the sky safari. All were fun, but it was really packed. We took lunch with us and save some money on food, but did pick up some ice cream and some funnel cake on the way out. Monkey at the zoo. On the carousel.  View from the sky safari. Tuesda...

The program came out for AERA. Here are my program participations for this year. The conference is in Washington DC. There are about 20,000 education scholars that meet every year and it is more difficult to get into than other conferences in my field. I have been going since 2007 and this is the first time we have had the conference in DC. Hannah was invited to a pirate birthday party at the East Lawrence Recreation Center. She dressed the part. They made treasure maps and played some games and ate cake. It was a good party.  I had two articles come out within a few days of each other. One of the journals already sent me a hard copy. It still looks good to see my name in print.  On February 29, it was Leap Year day, but also my half-birthday. I have been trying to get people to take this up as a legitimate celebration for a long time and it just hasn't come together. This year we went to McDonalds to celebrate and Hannah wanted to make me a c...