My spring break started Wednesday, it has been more or less than I have imagined. I got home Thursday to find my father and grandfather at work cleaning up after a bad wind storm. I got my work boots on after my 11 hour car ride home to help the work effort. This was a multiple day task, and is still in progress today.. The backyard was a complete mess.

After working to cut up and feed the brush into a chipper I smelled like lysol, which wasn't a bad thing. I also remember the smell from playing in the 'pine forest'-as I called it-as a kid.

This weekend I drove to Charlottesville to look for an apartment for next year. My mother and I looked at several examples houses, apartments, condos, garages...There were multiple living situations both with and without roommates. Some good possibilities were found. I also was able to update the decals on my car.

Tomorrow I am leaving for Hyde Park, New York. It is home to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and has all of the FDR and Eleanor paper collections. These are especially going to be important for my thesis and will hopefully provide me with the last threads I need to complete my thesis. I'll keep you updated. I plan to be back in WV by midweek to finish out my Spring Break. More to come soon.