It's been two and a half weeks since the end of the semester and I'm finally starting to not feel burnt out. Turns out teaching a 75% full-time workload ("30 hours" a week) plus classwork and research is a lot of work. I turned down a summer internship over this; hopefully a friend comes through with some part-time work for me. If not, this will be the first time I've been unemployed since 2009. I got some shop time in and realized how much I had been missing that. The plan this summer is to wrap up a couple half-finished projects, get one of my cars back on the road, and maybe start doing some body work on my current daily driver before its rust gets out of hand. My advisor wants me to put together a paper for a conference by Friday. I don't think my stuff is ready to publish, but now that I put it together, I've managed to fill up quite a few pages, so maybe she knows a little more about this than I do!