2. find a
creative outlet for stress, either playing an instrument or handcraft
3. submit
2 more papers.
Contingent
Cassandra
here are
my goals for the summer, and some comments (especially in light of the fact
that I know they're overambitious).
1. Keep
up with both individual and managerial/organizational contributions to grant
project; do some planning for future stages (mostly identifying possible
additional funders).
2.
Self-care, including increased exercise (walking; swimming; weight-lifting;
gardening, but not at the expense of the other three); brain
retraining/rejuvenation via breaks from the internet and time spent on
long-form reading (recreational and/or professional); improved diet (more
home-prepared food, more fruits and vegetables); good sleep routines.
3.
Continue getting financial affairs in order, planning for next 15-20 years and
beyond (with as much flexibility/room for accommodating the general
uncertainties of life and the specific uncertainties of contingent academic
positions as possible).
4. Stay
connected/reconnect with family and close friends, especially the elderly and
those recently affected by death and other upheavals. This will probably
involve at least one week-long and several weekend trips, as well as regular
long-distance communication.
5. Make
progress on household projects, especially creating additional built-in storage
in apartment.
6. Make
progress on organizing/sorting/culling items in offsite storage and preparing
for move (to cheaper interim storage or directly to 2nd home/investment
property in lower-cost-of-living area). #s5 and 6 are somewhat interconnected,
and I’m realistically probably going to make anything resembling visible
progress on only one of them; I suspect it should be #5, if only because
visible progress in the apartment is more visible, and so has a greater effect
on my morale.
7.
Reconnect in some way with research/writing in original field (realistically,
this is unlikely to go further than re-reading a draft or two to see where
things stand, and identifying/doing some secondary reading, but I’d like to do
at least that).
8. At
some point, I need to figure out how to balance original field research/writing
with teaching field research/writing (including activities in #1), all in the
context of a 4/4 writing-intensive load with no built-in sabbaticals. That
probably points to the value of finding a way to afford summers off, or at
least less-frequent summer teaching (see #s 3 and 6). This is a
well-beyond-the-summer TLQ/professional goal to which some of the above
contribute (and which needs to be kept in mind while making decisions about how
to spend time and money).
Realistically,
if I do a reasonably good job of #s1 and 4, make some progress on #s2
(especially exercise), 3, and 5, and do even a bit of #7, I’ll consider the
summer a success.
Daisy
For
travel this summer I have: 6 weeks of field work (in two shifts), three major
lab trips (about 1 week each) and a "vacation" week (aka do all
childcare and house stuff just like normal but in a different location with
none of the usual conveniences...)
TLQ
goals:
1) Redo a
hideous Revise/Resubmit paper left over from the winter term (the paper was
hideous, the review equally and deservedly so...)
2) Do
three major analytical projects and write a report for each
3) Learn
fancy new-to-me analytical and modelling software
4)
Exercise!!!!
5) Camp
in at least three new areas with child, and do a few trips to old favourites
6) Write
paper for new field area
Dame
Eleanor Hull (revised week 9)
1. Make a plan for moving prep, get some estimates, start some repairs.
2.
Finish all revisions: MMP-1, MMP-3, article from last summer that needs
only very very small points added (a recent acceptance).
3. Write conference paper, and arrange travel.
4. Finish syllabuses.
5. Keep ignoring the book till items 2-4 are completed.
6.
I so want to work on reviewing chunks of translation, but given the
time pressures of 2-4, I may need to ignore this for the next month, as
well. OTOH I will see one of my collaborators in August, so . . . let's
say review one chunk by then, so I don't feel like a slug when we meet
again.
7. Do things that keep me in touch with my real values and
priorities, and avoid reading or participating in things that interfere
with these.
Earnest
English
Summer
Goals (revised in week 8)
1. Work
on Secondary Field Project, achieving 8R and 8y by end of session, and getting
a fair amount of related reading done.
2. Talk
to NonAcademicFriend about non-academic work.
3.
Gardening!
4. Engage
with some relevant scholarship as desirable.
5. Get
FallClassesandPlan together.
6. Have a
wonderful family summer with lots of homeschooling, reading with Spirited, and
field trips! Make Spirited feel as if he's the center of my world!
7. Get
back into yoga or tai chi or something!
8. Do
Little Project plans.
9. Learn
about herbalism.
10. Read
nonscholarly books and have fun!
11. Yeah
yeah, do the workthings I promised to do but don't let them take over.
Elizabeth
Anne Mitchell
Have
office in new house set up and functioning
Finish
required class (May 27th)
Have
Pierpont article roughed out in first draft
Have
footnotes done for Prudence book
Take some
time to figure out my fiction writing
Walk/swim
to enjoy the summer weather
Good
Enough Woman
My
session goals are not terribly complicated:
1) Finish
the PhD thesis (all but minor editing, such as proofreading and changing
punctuation and spelling from American to British--these things can be done in
September).
2) Try
not to neglect the family all of the time.
3) Try not
to feel to guilty when I do neglect the family.
4) Get a
little bit of exercise (let's say some kind of movement at least 3x per week).
5)
Advocate for my needs/rights with my PhD university if need be.
heu mihi
my overly
ambitious summer project list:
1) Book
review 1
2) Book review
2
3) Write
chapter 6
4) Revise
and add M to chapter 4
5)
Research trip in late May! Then add research to ch. 3
6)
Conference paper proposal (due 6/15)
humming42
1 Finish
book manuscript (also known as RBP, revised book project, named by Dame Eleanor
many moons ago)
2 Mercury
essay draft due mid-July
3 Mars
essay due end of July
4 Submit
Venus abstract at the beginning of August
5 Try to
work yoga into life
6 Keep up
with household rehab
JaneB (from week 9)
1) Submitted Special Issue Paper
2) Completed the ProblemChild part 1
computer work, and have a complete draft of ProblemChildAdvertPaper and
a rough draft of ProblemChildDetailsPaper
3) have a decent amount of teaching preparation done or exhaustively planned
4)
make about a paper's worth (say 8-10,000 words) of progress on other
important writing - Picky Paper, Ferret, and one or more grant
applications are the top candidates here.
5) Have solved LikesMaths (my PhD student)'s paperwork/bureaucracy problem!
6) have a plan for Gallimaufrey web site for the next academic year and possibly a head start on the first few blog posts.
7)
have a visibly more orderly house, which I can hoover easily without
manouvering around piles of books, papers and miscellaneous stuff held
together by a fine web of self-organising cat hair
8) have made the most of the summer resources to have a better exercise habit and lost a few pounds
9) have written the workshop and talk for the September conference
karen
-make
space for reading (reading fuels writing)
-forward
(incremental) momentum on writing
-committed
but flexible approach to self care (exercise, sleep, good food choices)
KJHaxton
Session
goals:
- acronym
report and paper done and submitted
- House
project variant 1 - summer student supervised and significant progress
- House
project variant 2 - summer students recruited and decent progress
- Test
the water on various other projects
- Scary
project - paper submitted, next steps established
- 8
science outreach events planned, run and evaluated
- draft
paper on tesla project outlined and data considered
- one
conference presentation given, abstract for another to submit and give if
accepted
- Carry
on with my GoodReads challenge - now at 32/52 books. Not sure about hand
crafted items this summer - the garden calls more strongly in the summer months
so I'm thinking more 'grow pretty flowers and tasty fruits and veggies'.
Matilda
Write
Chapter 2
Revise
Chapter 1
Plan
Chapter 3
Write a
book review
Keep
writing regularly
Construct
healthy habits
Susan
In terms
of TLQ, I'm almost finished a book manuscript (awaiting reader's reports) and
my main goal for this session is to get it off to the press and in production.
I just want to be DONE. There are a couple of other minor tasks -- a book
review, preparing materials for a regular merit review, etc, but the book is
the thing. In addition, my elderly mother, who has been quite ill with various
things over the past year, lives in my town, and requires regular attention. I
will disappear for the month of July because my sister is coming to be the
responsible person for my mother. I will take vacation -- or rather three
separate vacation trips. Then I have a conference for which I have to write
something thoughtful in mid-August. So that's the summer. In all of this, I'd
like to keep up with exercise, and return to reading. We'll see!
Waffles
TLQ
summer goals:
1.
Manuscript 1 submitted
2.
Manuscript 2 drafted
3.
Manuscript from diss
4. F32
application
5. Other
minor grant apps
