And Today, the Seeds Collected Since 2018 Will Be Planted and We'll See What Blooms (or Dies) This Spring in the Garden of Academia

My intention was to be an early bird, so went to campus yesterday to finish last steps, have meetings with engineering faculty, and to hid submit. Of course, the software chosen by the University crashed and no one could do the work expected of them, until they could reach the company to find a solution. By the time I got to the reason I went to the campus in the first place, and I learned of this SNAFU, I simply inhaled and said, "Forget it. It's gorgeous outside. I'm taking my dog for a walk."

So I left. 

I walked the dog. Then I returned to edit, revise, create, and rethink some more. I will return to the University today to complete the task....planing 137 pages of seeds to hopefully bloom before others. It'll be out of my control when I hit send. It will happen at some time today, but first I will walk Karal, get my haircut, and do my laundry (which was on the radar as something to do to relax). 

There are no words for the process academics go through for peer-to-peer confirmation. I know what I do and I'm proud of it, but I also know others do other things differently. So, we can only hit submit and see what happens.

For today, though, the soil has raked over the seeds. Now, we wait for whether they will grow or not.