Week 5 already; goodness, time flies when you're having fun! Thanks, JaneB, for doing last week's post, and for a fun on-theme discussion question. I'll be traveling again next weekend, so I hope you can pitch in again, but then I'll be back to do the midterm check-in and the rest of the summer.
Also, we're sending good thoughts to Contingent Cassandra and Daisy! We hope all goes as well as it can.
That's the housekeeping taken care of. This week's discussion question: what food do you like to pack for a trip? Is it different for a road trip or plane flight? Do you always hit a particular restaurant on your way out of or into town? As usual, answer if the question speaks to you, and skip it if it doesn't appeal or if you're in a hurry.
How did you do last week, and what's on your plate for the coming week?
Dame Eleanor Hull
- Have a good time at conference
- Visit the library here in hope of finding something useful for essay due in September
- unpack at home
- behave self at fundraising shindig
- put up next week's main TLQ post
- work on organizing either guest room or my study
heu mihi
1. Try very hard not to get kid's cold
2. Enjoy my birthday (tomorrow)
3. Enjoy kid's birthday (Saturday)
4. Italian novel to p. 147
5. Tenure letter, which includes finishing a book and reading 3 articles
6. Do at least one self-indulgent fun thing for my birthday
JaneB
1) building better habits: one creative thing with the hands, keep reading for pleasure, start a new yarn project
1b) go to physio appointment re Hurty Foot
2) Environment: get caught up on chores, make booking to see decluttering person
3) blocks: do one teaching block
4) writing: referee an article: spend an hour on one of the research writing things I need to do
5) grad students: meetings, start junior MRes student on their lab work
6) be kind to myself and stick to the three days.
Julie
1. Finish reading PhD thesis.
2. Progress review for PhD student.
3. Do some planning for a book chapter.
4. Boring admin stuff: send yet more details about patio furniture, collect prescription, go to doctor's appointment, get appointment and X-ray for son, renew library book.
5. Self-care/fun stuff: video call with friends, read, exercise, get back to healthy eating (fruit snacks!), get more sleep, maybe do something creative.
Susan
1. Finish the review essay
2. Draft keynote for the end of June
3. Read dissertation chapter
4. Keep unpacking and reorganizing
5. Get garage door fixed
6. Get organized for trip to UK/ France
7. Keep up with the exercise
I am terrible about packing food for travel, and half the time when I do, I don't eat it.
ReplyDeleteHow I did:
1. Finish the review essay YES
2. Draft keynote for the end of June THERE'S A DRAFT
3. Read dissertation chapter NO
4. Keep unpacking and reorganizing YES
5. Get garage door fixed YES
6. Get organized for trip to UK/ France YES
7. Keep up with the exercise YES
Well, aside from the (23,000 word) dissertation chapter, it was a good week. I get on a plane tonight, and maybe I'll do a quick read of the dissertation chapter before I fall asleep... Otherwise, I'm having a vacation week with my sister in Paris. Will be back next week with goals.
I hope you have a wonderful trip! Also well done on last week's goals, and I'm impressed that you are giving a keynote address!
DeleteFun! Flights are good times to read stuff like that, I find.... Have a great trip!
DeleteHi! No problem doing the check in next week!
ReplyDeleteFood for travelling - as a vegetarian with various food sensitivities (which are not terribly convenient - a vegetarian who can't handle spicy food and the more fibrous Brassicas (my gut just hates kale), and has to limit pulses, raw vegetables, some carbs, tomatoes and the skins of bell peppers, is not someone who finds it easy to eat healthy when travelling - I eat a lot of omelettes and bread-and-cheese! And right now I can't eat bananas (they make my mouth fizz - I tend to find something palatable and digestible, eat it most days, then develop an intolerance/dislike for it, then if I leave it a year it might be able to come back into the rotation - apples "came back" this winter after two years of "cannot eat")), I ALWAYS pack foodstuffs!
For the travelling day, when we can keep things cool, I get childrens smoothie pouches or juice boxes and freeze them, then use them as cool packs then drink as slushies/use later in the trip, take sandwiches, and like to take boiled eggs and some vegetables (cucumber sticks are OK right now, or radishes, or cold roast root veg (roasted carrots are good)) and yoghurt-and-fruit-and-granola. And pack some picnic plastic cutlery which I can use all trip but if it DOES get lost or confiscated it cost very little. For supplement during the trip I pack fruit leather, dried fruit, various kinds of tree-nuts (protein + a satisfying food in a small space), and some granola-type bars - and always try to plan in time to visit a shop once I arrive and get some yoghurt/ bread or crackers/ cheese, hummus, veg/fruit supplies that I can have in my room in case I end up able to pack food for a day or can't eat much wherever I/the group end up. And multiple stomach medicines/loperamide type things! I really don't miss that part of travelling!!
LAST WEEK:
I didn't get as much done as I hoped - there were just a lot of niggly things going on, and the weather got warm enough my brain started slowing down and irritability ramped up, which didn't help, so I mostly just pottered along. Last weekend I was really excessively unproductive - this one has been a bit better.
1) building better habits: one creative thing with the hands, keep reading for pleasure, start a new yarn project made my Dad a Father's Day card, kept reading (helped by a highly anticipated pre-order arriving), did not do anything with yarn
1b) go to physio appointment re Hurty Foot yes. I have plantar fasciitis. Told to keep off the foot as much as possible, ice it, etc. - nothing much I can do other than wait for it to go away. LE BIG SIGH! It is better than it was...
2) Environment: get caught up on chores, make booking to see decluttering person not really but better than I was last week, the decluttering person is coming tomorrow
3) blocks: do one teaching block no - did various necessary things for the pre-exam board board which happened, and student support stuff
4) writing: referee an article: spend an hour on one of the research writing things I need to do yes, yes
5) grad students: meetings, start junior MRes student on their lab work yes, yes-ish
6) be kind to myself and stick to the three days. yes. Did a lot of napping/lazing around with my foot up listening to podcasts or watching baby animal videos
THIS WEEK:
DeleteI have one day when I might get a decent amount of work done, followed by two days with multiple meetings (when I need to be on campus for one then on my laptop for HOURS, sigh...). And the forecast is not in my favour weather-wise or pollen wise. I think I probably need to plan for no actual teaching blocks until July - I have two more weeks with a lot of interruptions/things in the diary, then a week off, but after that it's a bit calmer (as we start to get to the point where meetings are harder to schedule because of conflicting travel and annual leave schedules!).
1) building better habits: one creative thing with the hands, keep reading for pleasure, start a new yarn project
2) Environment: get caught up on chores, make the most of spending time with the decluttering person
3) blocks: no goals this week
4) writing: referee another article: at least one hour on each of three different projects with meetings this week or next
5) grad students: meetings, comment on mountain of first draft of discussion from now-senior graduate student
6) be kind to myself and stick to the three days.
We're also having a lot of bad pollen days, plus some poor air quality due to fires a long way off. This makes me cross b/c it hasn't been so hot that I can't bear to be out, but I am better off inside b/c of the allergies etc. Grr. Sorry about the plantar fasciitis! Rest and then the right shoes really do fix it up, so I hope it will resolve for you; also hope that you and the decluttering person have a good session.
DeleteSorry about the foot. Hope rest helps. Weather forecast is definitely not conducive to productivity either.
DeleteIt sounds like you're being realistic about what you can do, which is excellent--don't stress yourself!
DeleteLike JaneB, I have to plan food carefully for travel, though except for the hardboiled eggs and veg, we don't overlap much (I do like the idea of roasted carrots instead of raw carrot sticks, thanks for that!). I can't have fruit, grains except for rice, any dairy (except carefully calibrated doses of lactose-free yogurt), onions, garlic . . . it's a challenge, and airport/airline food is usually particularly unfriendly to me. Potato crisps are safe, and I was delighted when British Airlines offered them; the American companies have this fixation on pretzels. Anyway, I tend to take hardboiled eggs, carrots, radishes, cucumber sticks, "sticks" of cold boiled potatoes, and possibly a container of rice and maybe chia seeds. With a sugar packet and hot water, I can make a reasonable imitation of porridge out of pre-cooked rice and chia seeds.
ReplyDeleteHow I did:
- Have a good time at conference: YES, it was great!
- Visit the library here in hope of finding something useful for essay due in September: YES, but no luck.
- unpack at home: YES
- behave self at fundraising shindig: YES (it went better than I expected; I hate having to demonstrate school spirit)
- put up next week's main TLQ post: YES (as you see!)
- work on organizing either guest room or my study: well, you can see some of the top of my desk, so let's say YES.
ALSO: wrote letters to two friends, sowed spinach seeds since my spinach is bolting, managed to finish another chapter in the Italian mystery novel I'm reading (inspired by heu mihi!).
New goals:
- write next conference paper
- errands in Our Quaint Village (previous town)
- swim x3 (pool is reopening!!), cardio & weights x2
- pack for next trip
- tasks for summer TA (very urgent!)
- continue progress on clearing study and/or guest room
- read book for mystery group meeting
I'll just leave it at that. Some of these things absolutely must get done, so I'll just concentrate on the essentials.
Glad the conference went well, and the fundraising thing was better than you expected.
DeleteHooray for Italian! Brava, amica!
DeleteI don't tend to do very long trips, usually, though I will have a long train journey end of this month. I usually pack fruit, cereal bars and crisps. If I'm catching a train in the UK and don't need to worry about stuff leaking over a bag because I've had to shove it in hand luggage, I will get something like sushi or pasta salad if there's a place in the station selling those. I will try to buy a sandwich in advance if I'm flying at lunch time, since I only ever get the kind of short-haul cheap airline flights that charge extortionate prices for terrible food.
ReplyDeleteHow I did:
1. Finish reading PhD thesis. - ALMOST
2. Progress review for PhD student. - YES
3. Do some planning for a book chapter. - NO
4. Boring admin stuff: send yet more details about patio furniture, collect prescription, go to doctor's appointment, get appointment and X-ray for son, renew library book. - NO to patio furniture, YES to the rest.
5. Self-care/fun stuff: video call with friends, read, exercise, get back to healthy eating (fruit snacks!), get more sleep, maybe do something creative. - YES to everything except sleep and creative stuff.
I was over-optimistic on goals, since medical appointments took way more time than I planned for. The good news is that son's foot doesn't seem to be anywhere near as bad as feared. I'm now involved in discussion with school about whether he can join a hiking and camping expedition at the end of this week after all.
This week I am heading to Paris on Wednesday morning for a workshop Thursday-Friday. It is forecast to be 34 degrees celsius, so I am not looking forward to it. I will be thinking enviously of Susan in an air-conditioned museum or cafe. I am having a weekend in London on my return with my two best friends, so hopefully that will be compensation.
Goals:
1. Prep for workshop (read papers for my session, think of some discussion points), try to enjoy workshop when it happens
2. Finish PhD thesis if time.
3. Review for PhD student.
4. Read book in library in Paris on Wednesday afternoon.
5. Pack for trip, organise son's expedition (possibly at a distance)
6. Enjoy weekend with friends!
I hope the workshop goes well, and that the travel is without incident; also that your son gets to go on his hiking trip. Enjoy the weekend in London!
DeleteWhen we go to the beach, I always make a dilled havarti dip (which is basically havarti, dill, scallions, and mayo. In fact, that's the complete ingredient list). I only make it for the beach, and I'm not even sure that anyone else likes it all that much, but it is My Thing! And then I eat sandwiches with just a thick slather of spread and some sliced tomatoes, and love them.
ReplyDeleteLast week:
1. Try very hard not to get kid's cold - MAYBE? On Monday afternoon and through Tuesday (my birthday), I was very tired and had a sore throat. But then on Wednesday I felt great. And then on Thursday I had a sort of sore throat again, which I have now decided was allergies. Kid got better and then got sick again (had a fever Thursday night), and now seems better, more or less.
2. Enjoy my birthday (tomorrow) - YES, although I didn't feel great
3. Enjoy kid's birthday (Saturday) - YES; it was pretty quiet
4. Italian novel to p. 147 - YES
5. Tenure letter, which includes finishing a book and reading 3 articles - YES
6. Do at least one self-indulgent fun thing for my birthday - I was feeling a little sick. But I did nap and then, feeling better in the evening, watched silly TV with knitting while husband was with kid at kung fu, and then enjoyed a glass of wine on the deck with a fun novel.
This week:
1. Round of revisions to article
2. Italian novel to p. 196
3. Draft fall syllabus
4. Start reading book to review
5. Respond to student re. grad handbook; finish (??) handbook revisions
I had to google havarti, but that sounds nice. Sorry you weren't feeling great on your birthday, but glad you got to relax.
DeleteWine and a fun novel sound like a great celebration to me!
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