2025 Session 3 - Week 10, binders and binder clips

 It's been COLD this week in the UK - scraping ice off the car, some spells of freezing rain, snow showers and snow lying where I am.  Several modules had assignment deadlines so the students were feeling hard-done-by and skipping class, and Shoutypants spent most of the week either under the heated clothes airer (below, where accidental sock placement makes it look like he's feeling festive) or under my fleece dressing gown.  Sadly, I still had to work.  But there are only three weeks of teaching left...

Today in terms of stationary let's talk about binders (and binder clips).  I used to use ring binders (and paper folders and envelope folders and box files) for just about everything in my efforts to stay organised, but as more and more things moved on line, that's much less of a thing - the most used ring binder in my office now is repurposed to be a door stop!  But I still make a lot of use of binder clips (or bulldog clips or whatever you call them).  How do you keep your papers together and organised?  Has it changed?  Do you kind of miss picking out just the right design of binder for a project, or occasionally being 'bitten' by a binder's rings?m or the pleasure of opening a new packet of pre-printed dividers to put into the binder?

<b>LAST WEEK'S GOALS:</b>

Daisy

Data for new/old paper
Sample processing
Two reviews now urgent
Review committee homework

Dame Eleanor Hull

- swim x3, cardio x3, weights x2, yoga x5
- at least 4 writing sessions
- finish grading undergrad papers; finish prep of objects for a special class; write two more assignments
- finish sample syllabus for a proposed course
- put new sticker on licence plate

heu mihi

no goals set

JaneB

SELF-CARE:
a) intentional movement for at least 15 minutes three days
b) making a couple of times a week
c) two gently social things (D&D hopefully)
d) keep up reading for pleasure
IMPROVING MY ENVIRONMENT
a) 75%+ of the weekly list of chores
b) make a plan for the shelving in the living room
c) don't make clothes worse
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
a) finish week 10 and prepare week 11 materials
b) limit teaching and admin to 5 hours at weekend (I have an online PhD defense to do on my non working day...)
c) do at least one more piece of graduate student writing (both MSc by thesis students submitted drafts of stuff last week)
RESEARCH
a) finish very long lasting multi-author paper resubmission
b) if possible read revised manuscript from last autumn's visiting post-doc.

Julie

1. Finish article edits and resubmit.
2. Finish one of the chapters and send to editors.
3. Work on other chapter if time.
4. House/life admin: find plumber, chase prescription, take car for service/MOT and hope worrying engine noise doesn't turn out to be serious, start Xmas planning.
5. Self care: get over cold/virus!

Susan

1. New batch of copyedits on Famous Author
2. Deal with last questions on Big Collaboration because my co-editor is in Japan
3. Clear desk of junk
4. Catch up on teaching stuff
5. Get back into exercise
6. Read some journals
7. Do some needlepoint
8. Sleep