My last post described my brain after an academic year (including last summer) that resulted in burnout. The unfortunate side(?) effect of that burn out has been the tabling of a book that I’m editing – with some 25 chapters and three times as many authors and coauthors.
So I just sent them an email explaining that I was burned out. Will they sympathize or ostracize? Not sure but I need to move on this project. I think I can but let’s see how it goes.
On a completely unrelated note, my students found the first wood thrush nest of the season. Last field season of the project looking at wood thrush reproductive success as a function of context (landscape) and local effects, such as tree cover.
Concrete Ornithology 