April in Review

Although I didn't accomplish all of my April goals, this past month has been a relative success in getting things done.

I did eventually pass this girl, but I let her be my rabbit for a couple of miles.  

My Fitness and Health goals were to:
-Eat at least one vegetable with dinner every night - We did it!  M. and I managed to keep our pact for the entire month, even if a couple of nights were pretty unhealthy with a side of vegetables.
-Run 100 miles in April - Nope.  I missed several mid-week runs due to long days and scheduling conflicts.  I feel alright about my mileage, though, as I've been getting in my long runs and usually two other runs each week.  I logged 78 miles this past month.  After a month of taking it easy in terms of pace because of my back, I was also finally able to reintegrate some speed work this past week.
-Keep track of everything I eat in my journal and note how particularly foods make me feel - I journaled about half the time, but my note-taking effort was an utter failure.  I think I did this for two days.  Try, try again.

My Writing Goals were to:
- Write reports - Done and done!
- Look into starting or joining an academic writing group for the summer - Check.  I have created a sort of virtual word count club with some colleagues from my grad school days for the summer.  I've also made plans to get together one afternoon a week during the summer months and work at a local coffee shop with a friend and colleague here.
- Outline and get started on my book proposal - Sadly, I did not get to this at all.
- Clean and reorganize my campus office and writing desk - I accomplished this.  I cleaned and organized my campus office early on in the month and did a pretty good job of keeping it in an organized state.  I finally cleaned my writing desk yesterday.  It only took all month, but it's done.  Now I'm in the process of rigging my writing desk so I can work there standing.
- Get materials for revising and resubmitting a journal article.  I have started this one, but not quite finished it.  I've requested a number of sources that I need, but I still have to track some down and get organized.

I got a lot of things done in April that aren't listed here.  I visited friends in Ohio.  I ran a half-marathon.  I met with my co-editor to talk about some of the final details regarding a publication project that is forthcoming.  I graded lots of papers.  I wrote lots of lectures.  I experimented some with my new tripod and remote.  I started planning a trip to Boston, Toronto, and Montreal.  I started breaking in new running shoes.  I tried some new recipes and microbrews.  

How was your April?  Did you run any races?  Travel?  Try new recipes?  Accomplish a goal in your professional life?  I wanna hear from you!