I need to go do some errands instead of eating All The Chocolate. OK, I'm not really eating all of it; there's still plenty left. But chocolate is always more-ish. So, what are your favorites? While I was in the UK, I had a good bar of plain (dark) chocolate from Sainsbury's, but then turned to Green & Black's ginger chocolate. At home, my go-tos are Trader Joe's Pound Plus of dark chocolate, and Chocolove's peppermint flavor (also fond of their ginger and Rich Dark). Your recs?
And how are the work and other to-dos going? Bonne courage!
How I did with last week's goals:
ReplyDelete--assemble documents, fill in & file travel voucher: NO, totally forgot this one! (Why I always had "look at calendar and lists daily" during our last session!)
--catch up on class attendance, e-mail people who need prodding: YES
--finish writing essay that is now months overdue (editors assure me I am not the worst offender!): NO, could not manage writing time this week.
--do some editing tasks of my own (apparently I am not getting out of the situation I recently reported on . . . ): YES, more to come (this is going to need a LOT of chocolate; editing, at least of a small and obscure annual, is waaaaaay too much like grading)
--get back to exercise routine: YES! (Swam twice, exercise bike twice, weights once, yoga x5)
--take Reina to vet (routine visit): YES
--prep dead languages/catch up on what I missed: YES
ALSO: read 4 chapters of a book some of which I'll assign in the fall, plus an essay by the same author, read or re-read another essay (must check to see if I took notes on it and forgot it, or just never read it after downloading), went for a walk with a friend, attended most of a one-day symposium online, went to mystery group, wrote down some ideas about teaching a class I haven't done for awhile, contemplated some garden work but realized we have a freeze warning tonight so put it off (last week we got up to 80 F, and will do so again in another few days; the freeze is crazy).
Next week has a lot of running around, with minimum 40 miles of driving on each of 4 days (double that on two of them), so I am going to try to be realistic with new goals:
--travel voucher stuff
--write/research 20-30 minutes/day (at least take some notes on last week's readings)
--regular exercise
--editing process stuff
--show up adequately prepared for all the meetings
--look at calendar and lists every day
Bendicks for dark chocolate with mint, Lindt Excellence for the sort of quality where you eat two pieces and are satisfied. Currently especially the orange intense flavour (candied orange peel and almond slivers and very dark chocolate... yum!).
ReplyDeleteI'm really fed up with collaborators on the big paper right now - we had an extra two weeks which we didn't fully need but of course because we did have it everyone kept drifting past their promised deadlines and I spent most of last week just reminding and reminding (and one has to be so careful with the messaging), and the person who is doing the references got the piece late and had a busy week (they're one of the most junior teaching-heavy-role people in the group and that's one reason I was pushing so hard for people to hit their darn deadlines, so that he had the time to finish his part) and basically we missed our extended deadline. So I carefully composed an email to the editor, who has an out of office on until the end of the month and named an "emergency contact" for the special issue - who turned out to ALSO have her out of office on! GAH. And that means I still have to deal with the dreaded submission system on Monday and I have other things to do! GAH.
Goals for the coming week:
1) at least 3 x 20 minutes intentional movement
2) 75% of chores list
3) get this darned revised article resubmitted
4) start to plan timetabling for next year
5) book annual leave for the summer months (make sure I use up the days I have left now carry over isn't allowed - our leave year ends in July now (recent change - used to be September) and I used to mostly take leave in August, but I can only carry a few days over and don't want to use too much of next year's time. I'll probably mostly book long weekends again.
6) comment on grad student from another university's paper (unless I get a big chunk from one of my masters-by-research students in - those take priority at this point, they are both "supposed" to submit at the end of the month but are unlikely to make it)
That will do for now. Only two weeks of teaching left...