Oh my, oh my, oh May

It has been a long five or so weeks since my last post.
Spring arrived, Aaron visited for a long weekend, spring decided that it in fact came too soon, the end of the semester approached, then the end of the semester arrived, and then drug on for weeks. Andy graduated and then Katie graduated.
As of yesterday morning I'm officially done with the semester and into Summer. And of course it's complicated. There's a Berkeley grad student who wants to help me build my...err...a new spectrometer for Arecibo. I'll spare you all the details, but the consequence of this is I get/have to spend the summer in Berkeley. Get to because a summer in Berkeley would be fun and we'd together make more progress than I would alone. Have to because if I don't move out there soon, they'll build my...I mean the spectrometer without me and I don't get to spend the summer in Ithaca. This prospect is painful since the beautiful summers are what gets us through Ithaca winters (that and the amazing Fall colors). Summers in the Bay Area are probably nice too, though a bit chilly. At least I'll get some real summer while in Iowa at the end of July.
I'll post again once I know exactly when I head west.