Week 8: Half way in, half way out, shake it all about

Hello All

By my reckoning we're around half way through this 15 week stretch. That's usually a good time for a prune and re-plant of session goals. What's thriving? What's got some deadwood in it that could be removed to let new shoots grow? Here's a photo of a corner of my garden, the primroses are out in full force and will be until late Summer. I was pretty brutal to them last summer, I divided them and replanted them twice so I was expecting very sulky primroses and yet they are more beautiful this year than I've ever seen them. I can't explain the flower:leave ratio. So to me, a pruning and tending analogy for goals is very apt. The other green things popping through are garlic - we have strange mix of planting, practical alongside pretty. 

First this week is your session goals from week 1, followed by your week 7 goals (or earlier weeks as applicable). No topic as such, I think two sets of goals is probably sufficient. 

Session Goals:
Contingent Cassandra
--improved self-care, especially continuing current trends toward moving more, cooking/eating more homemade food, getting sufficient sleep on a regular schedule, and doing more long-form reading (list is more or less in order of priority) 

--continued progress on getting my financial (first priority) and physical house in order
--try to stay on top of teaching planning and tasks, the better to protect planned TLQ time from TRQ catch-up (and reduce the combined physical and psychological exhaustion that results from falling behind, and leads to lost/wasted time) 

--get/stay in better touch with family and friends 

--make continued reasonable progress on the grant-funded project (while keeping in mind that it isn’t currently actually funded, nor do I have any release time, etc., etc. to support it) 

--prepare to apply for contract renewal and, if possible, promotion, next year

--continue thinking about next steps professionally, while focusing in practical terms on personal/household “infrastructure.” If I actually do something to advance professional goals, it would probably be writing about the grant-funded project and/or background reading for my own research 

Daisy
Work:
1 - Get papers written - there are 3 for which data collection is just about complete, and need concentrated, sit-down, focused writing time. They will be my main priority. 
2 - Ignore all politics, labour disruptions, gossip, and time-sucking whiny colleagues and FOCUS on Goal number 1... 
3 - Hang out and work with good colleagues :)

Personal:
1 - Have lots of winter fun with kid - skiing every possible weekend, and other outside things.
2 - Get an exercise routine going so that it is an automatic part of every week.


Dame Eleanor Hull 
1. Life Stuff: get house on market.
2. Research: turn around two sets of revisions and get back to work on book-in-progress. Also prep for a conference in May (not a paper, another sort of thing).
3. Teaching: plan and deliver interesting classes, with useful and prompt feedback to students, without getting so detailed as to overwhelm any of us.
4. Health: maintain routines for safe food, appropriate exercise including stretching, yoga classes twice a week, and sitting 3-4x/week.
5. Leisure: plan and do at least one fun or social thing per week; plan and take a trip at spring break to visit my family.


Earnest English
-Grounding: Winter is difficult, so I need to really focus on taking care of myself physically, mentally, and spiritually. Sleep is a particular challenge both because of a limited day to get things done in (so I want to stay up and do or be more) and insomnia. Meditation and yoga would be wise. Baths and active self-care (such as singing) are incredibly important. I need weekly goals on this. I also have decided that I no longer want to give anxiety free rent in my head. So I'm going to work on more mental discipline aka distraction in my head. 

-Spirited's therapy and education. We've started quite brightly this year, so I just need to keep on top of this.

-Gardening: Start early seeds on time at Groundhog Day and keep on top of gardening and associated projects.

-Plan and plod work: I need to keep up on my teaching and other work. This quarter I actually have a slightly reduced load and that plus winter usually means that I spend very little time on campus, which means I have to get work done at home. This is often difficult and filled with strife, both internal and external. I need to just establish a routine and keep on top of things at home and not feel guilty about it. I also need to research and come up with a snow day plan for taking my classes online. 

-Writing Project: I've gotten behind on the writing (not the research, which I'm doing spectacularly on). I do need to step up my game here, so I'd like to get to 12X by the end of our session. I'm tempted to make a goal of 15x so there's 1x a week, just because that's a much more concrete goal.

-Big Report: I promised a colleague I'd write a big report, and I need to work on it a bit each week and incorporate that into my weekly plan so it will get done without panic. 


Elizabeth Anne Mitchell
Session mantra: Plan, breathe, create
Write at least five sentences every day.
Leaven the excitement of new projects with the gratification of finishing old ones.
Monitor food intake and movement.


Good Enough Woman 
1. Drink more water (to avoid kidney stones).
2. Exercise 4x per week (walking and yoga, etc.)
3. Eat more veggies and develop some more healthy (healthful?) recipes for the family.
4. Totally finish dissertation (corrections, hard binding, etc.)--this extent of this goal will depend on what kinds of corrections my examiners require.
5. Complete conference paper (for Feb)
6. Submit one article for publication.
7. Take weekend time to work when necessary, but also carve out quality time for kids: hiking, board games, helping with projects.


Heu mihi
-MS revisions such that I'll be on track to have a complete, revised manuscript by September 1. For the next fifteen weeks, then, this means revising two chapters and the intro, and drafting the last unwritten section of ch. 4.
-Write 2/4 conference papers for Summer 2017. (Ideally, I'll write 4/4, but I'm trying to be realistic.)
-Return to and maintain my running schedule


Humming42
1 Read book and review (book not yet in hand)
2 Finish two revisions and resubmit
3 Follow up on work under review as appropriate
4 Submit Circus abstract at end of January
5 Submit Glass essay
6 Write 5x/week
7 Read 5x/week


JaneB
1) self-care 
2) domestic progress (my house currently shares many of the features of a packrat midden - I haven't YET peed on the piles of random stuff, but...) and in an ideal world would be orderly and clean enough to invite my parents to stay by midsummer.
3) know what the situation is with regard to the trip, and be prepared for it.
4) Have a grant application text out for 'internal review' within the University
5) have made measureable progress on one of the papers _I_ want to write for _my_ research agenda, such as it is (as opposed to those which are more obligations to others/projects) - in my increasingly daft nickname system this means progressing Picky, Twiddly or perhaps ProblemChild-1-2


Karen 
Use the early part of this session to get ahead and stay on top of teaching to keep space for other TLQ stuff.
Work with co-author to get Earth paper ready for submission.
Work with research mentor to clarify longer-term research goals and steps.
More research-related reading generally.
Set in place some foundational self-care habits in the the areas of energy (sleep, movement, food) and connection (with people, with the environment).

KJHaxton
- Submit paper based on acronym report
- Write and send for feedback paper 2 (international) and paper 3 (testing)
- finish literature review for loop project and potentially review style article draft if co-authors interested
- Draft funding application on house project and decide between a grant or fellowship application (I can't do both).
- survive the last 5 rounds of chemo (every three weeks)
- walk every day, aiming for average of at least 3 km a day balanced between good weeks and bad weeks.
- work on crafty projects

Luolin
Research-
Write regularly.
Revise an article that was rejected in order to submit it to a different journal.
Submit abstract for fall conference.

Self-care-
Get more sleep.
Get back to my running schedule. (Like heu mihi! except where I live, summer is least comfortable time to run, so I'm missing out on the good running weather right now.)

Susan 
Session Goals
I'm keeping my goals modest, because on of my resolutions after finishing all the work on my book on December 23 was to try to slow down.
Research/writing
1. Write Way Outside Essay -- a semi-scholarly piece on a subject far from my expertise. I'm filling in for someone who dropped out of a collection, so the timeline is short.
2. Finish notes on forum contribution
3. Write paper for May conference
4. Start playing with material for my next (short) book, which I'll call Funhouse project. I'm teaching a graduate course related to this, so . . .

Health and home:
1. I gained weight in December, because of the cold that would not die, and then Christmas. I need to be regular about exercise. I normally go to an exercise session three mornings a week, and I'm trying to add to that. I'm not fixated on the scale, but I know I feel better when I'm exercising and eating well.
2. Declutter one room of my house, making it more functional. 
3. Keep on top of incoming mail so that I don't drown in it.

Life in the world:
1. Spend time regularly with friends
2. Be an engaged citizen (rally on Jan 21, call congresscritter and senators, etc.) But try not to be overwhelmed.
3. Make sure I'm enjoying life

Waffles

1. NIH grant application (I am taking a grant writing class, and we have to write a whole application by the end of the semester; for those who know NIH apps, this will be a K level application - I'm currently awaiting the results of my F).
2. Get relationship paper finished and accepted.
3. Write election paper (I am more excited about this than anything right now - we have been able to survey almost 1000 people and counting - within a specific minority group - on their feelings about the election)
4. Get a bad draft of policy paper (not excited about this one)
5. Bad draft of dissertation paper (not excited about his, but diss advisor says doing it shows "follow through").
6. Start getting rid of stuff in my house to prep for move this summer
7. Spend some time each day on things that are not work related and that make me happy (like cooking, singing to loud music, etc) - I tend to either work or avoid working - I want to do some more purposeful things in my non-working time.




Week 7 Goals

Contingent Cassandra (from week 6)
--list teaching prep & response to-dos at least through spring break (preferably the whole semester), and at least keep up
--do class reading/watching for week; 1-2 more blog posts
--walk or lift weights once (preferably both, but let's be realistic) 
--make parsley pesto if time

Daisy
on break

Dame Eleanor Hull 
1. House: make an actual plan for spring break (more detailed than just “deal with this later”). I’m going to try the Push approach, since Plod isn’t working.
2. Put in 8 hours writing/thinking time. Try to finish MMP-1 revisions? Or at least make progress and estimate time to completion.
3. Teaching: oodles of grading. Do try to keep up.
4. Health: exercise of some kind at least one-half hour per day; ankle rehab exercises daily; weights three times; weekend yoga if I feel like it. 
5. Fun/social thing: get tix to play friend is in; do something restorative/pleasurable every day; social gathering Wednesday.

Earnest English
still plodding?

Elizabeth Anne Mitchell
Rehab exercises 3 times a day, seven days a week. Seriously.
Take the opportunity of being home to figure out the gut problem. (The tests indicate it is diet, not the gut itself)
Dictate in English for half an hour a day.
Type in the foreign languages for ten minutes a day.

Good Enough Woman 
1) Print out chapter one and read it to find things to cut.
2) Walk 3X
3) Figure out a research plan. Do I start reading in my area more widely? Do I go deeper into the themes of my thesis? Do I read only things related to the chapter I want to publish? I'm feeing rather paralyzed by these questions.
4) Get kids' allowance back on track and get them practicing piano more regularly.
5) Tidy the study.

Heu mihi
1. Draft response
2. Read ch. 5 and look for Conf. 4 paper/title
3. Read MA thesis
4. Touch kzoo daily
5. Regular workout schedule???

Humming42
1 Read 6x
2 Research/Write 5x
3 Draft Circus abstract
4 Return Mars proofs

JaneB
1) another hour on Ferret
2) allow myself to take this week off from Grant I Wish I'd Never Started whilst I wait for feedback from two internal referees, although if there's time I should work at filling out the various forms and checking numbers
3) do a couple of hours on Problem Child Number 2
4) do some free-writing about future grant ideas, in preparation for a workshop in two weeks' time.
5) stick to the sugar-free thing, and try out some different options for snacks with satisfying texture, high portability and a "warm" taste (good Swiss milk chocolate exemplifies the "warm" eating experience. Cheese, especially a good cheddar or manchego, comes close at times, as does ice cream. Lettuce is about as anti-warm as you can get. Warm is just the best word I have for the set of sensations I seek, not an actual description...).

Karen (from week 6)
1. Don't check email until after writing - start on residency application for 10 mins at the start of each work day.
2. Go to yoga class at least once, make time to focus on breathing each day.
3. Corral managerial stuff into a designated timeslot.
4. Write very short high priority list for each work day.

KJHaxton
- Marking (it's a chemo week and I find those are well suited to tasks with prescriptive rubrics or model answers.)
- reading of draft student work and giving feedback
- adminfrustration x 3
- tackle the remains of the paper that I'm trying to get submission ready (e.g. stop fretting about it's quality and send it out for editor/reviewers opinion and stop trying to 2nd guess it!).

Susan (from week 7)
1. Write abstract finally
2. Start writing paper
3. Submit forum essay to journal for review
4. Finish clearing desk and paying bills
5. Get back to exercise: 3 mornings a week, and also walking and/or yoga on the other mornings.
6. Keep social media under control
7. Read. No more excuses.

Waffles
1. aging paper outline - improve
2. Equality paper - make outline
3. Diss paper outline
4. Qual analyses drafted
5. LHF grant idea found

Week 7: plod or push?

In last week's comments, we got on to the topic of submerging in a task vs. doing a little every day, or doing lots of small tasks rather than one big one. It's hard to unpack this topic without judgment* because since childhood we've been surrounded by various messages about how to work: smarter not harder; hard work pays off; tortoise beats hare; Romantic genius admirably throws self into work, perhaps to the point of madness, but produces masterpiece; Anthony Trollope works to the clock, 250 words every 15 minutes, for three hours a day; and I'm sure you can fill in your own examples, perhaps of people you have known and admired, or deplored, IRL. Two years ago, "In the Middle" had some posts about writing (binge or plod?) that became a book; this is one, from a pair of binge-writers.

My point is, it depends. It depends on you. It depends on the task. It depends on where you are in your life. Take moving house: if you have money but not time, you can keep living in your current house with all your things around you until the day the movers come, pack everything for you, move it and unpack it in the new house. This is expensive but effective. You can also gradually purge, pack up the out-of-season clothes, holiday decorations, and other non-essentials, saving needed kitchen items and bedsheets for moving day, and then reverse the process on the other end, going from daily necessities to the fully-equipped household. This is cheaper and also effective.

Some people grade a few papers a day till they're done. I had an admired colleague who binge-graded, so that (a) he was sure what problems the whole group should work on, and (b) he could get it over with.

I write both ways. I chip away at an article, a little at a time, taking notes, outlining, picking quotations, drafting. The MMP-1, in its first incarnation, was a tortoise-plod of writing a paragraph at a time (after I dissected it away from the MMP-2 and MMP-3). Its rejection had nothing to do with writing style or process, but "fit" for the journal. Its second incarnation was a brutally shortened version for a journal with a page limit; I admit it lacked a lot of connective tissue, but I did like the stripped-down argument. I binge-wrote the third, accepted version, starting over from scratch, because I knew the style would be smoother that way; I finally had a clear idea in my head of what needed to be there and how to connect all the bits, and I wanted to be done with it without any more distractions or delays.

So . . . when do you plod, when do you push to completion? Do you have different methods for different kinds of tasks? When have you experimented with the other approach, and how did that work?

*I'm American, influenced by Dan'l Webster. Judgement, if you speak the Queen's English.

Goals this past week; how did you do?

Contingent Cassandra
--list teaching prep & response to-dos at least through spring break (preferably the whole semester), and at least keep up
--do class reading/watching for week; 1-2 more blog posts
--walk or lift weights once (preferably both, but let's be realistic)
--make parsley pesto if time

Daisy
on break

Dame Eleanor Hull
1. House: find 2 hours, somewhere, to work on this; ½ to 1 hour on mental aspects (make lists, think about approaches), 1 to 1.5 hours on actual decluttering.
2. Research: carry on with the “touch” project; try to read/note two items this week, which will complete a stack of books on my desk, and move on to free-writing about a conceptual issue.
3. Teaching: more BB updating; grade 3 sets of assignments; scan and post the story.
4. Health: exercise of some kind at least one-half hour per day; ankle rehab exercises daily; weights three times; weekend yoga if I feel like it.
5. Fun/social thing: keep doing something pleasurable and/or restorative every day; social gatherings Wednesday and Saturday.

Earnest English
still plodding?

Elizabeth Anne Mitchell
- Do rehab exercises three times daily.
- Resurrect my outlines and rework them with more detail, including time estimates.
- Figure out what I can write effectively with voice to text.
- Glory in being able to write without being interrupted by meetings.

Good Enough Woman
1) Finish conference paper by Thursday night in my hotel (this is really TRQ, I guess).
2) Don't abandon grading while I'm at the conference (as much as I would really like to).
3) Run errands Monday evening to get Valentine's balloons, etc. in order to present proper festivity for my daughter when she wakes up Valentine's Day morning.
4) Exercise 3x
5) Take guitar to conference?

Heu mihi
1. Read for kzoo (2 essays)
2. Read papers for response
3. Yoga x 2, run x 1? (Weather permitting)
4. Get on top of graduate student writing

Humming42
1 Read 4x
2 Write 4x
3 Submit Scary Conference Abstract
4 Select and caption photos for rbp
5 watch film for research project

JaneB
checked in but no goals set

Karen (from previous week)
1. Don't check email until after writing - start on residency application for 10 mins at the start of each work day.
2. Go to yoga class at least once, make time to focus on breathing each day.
3. Corral managerial stuff into a designated timeslot.
4. Write very short high priority list for each work day.

KJHaxton
- get one paper submission worthy
- 3 sessions of course prep/adminfrustration
- work on research tool for other paper
- avoid email

Susan
1. Write abstract finally
2. Start writing paper
3. Submit forum essay to journal for review
4. Finish clearing desk and paying bills
5. Get back to exercise: 3 mornings a week, and also walking and/or yoga on the other mornings.
6. Keep social media under control
7. Read. No more excuses.

Waffles
1. HuffPo piece
2. aging paper analyses
3. Grant methods drafted
4. Equality paper - make outline
5. Review and add to combo paper

Week 6: Now with added February

I hope you've all had a satisfying week in some way or another. I've been thinking a bit about what humming42 wrote last week about finding goals like 'write 4 times a week' to be unsatisfying and leading to thoughts about time spent but what is there to show for it. I tried the write an hour a day approach this last week and I found it simultaneously satisfying (yay! time spent), and unsatisfying (boo! whole heap of half written stuff). So I think we can go back to basics a little this week. How does the way we frame our TLQ goals for the week impact our sense of satisfaction at completion, and more tangibly, our progress towards them? Are there ways you've found of writing your goals that actually inspire you to work towards them?



Goals from last week:

Contingent Cassandra
--list teaching prep & response to-dos at least through spring break (preferably the whole semester), and at least keep up; try to get ahead. 
--walk and lift weights at least once each (preferably more); return to short stretches, stair-walking, etc. during breaks from work
--get back to evening schedule that has me in bed between 9 and 10 p.m., and preferably reading for a while before that on nights I don't have a meeting to attend 
--actually set up blog and finish/post at least 2 posts (preferably 3); continue w/ other class activities
--continue financial stock-taking; begin taxes
--make pesto and oatmeal(and maybe chili and/or soup) 

Daisy
- on break

Dame Eleanor Hull
1. House: 3 hours de-cluttering on Tuesday afternoon. (Let's see if a slot on the calendar helps.)
2. Research: carry on with the “touch” project; try to read/note three items this week.
3. Teaching: update Blackboard, grade 2-3 sets of short assignments, track down that story.
4. Health: exercise of some kind at least one-half hour per day; ankle rehab exercises daily; weights three times; at least one yoga class at the weekend. Sit 3x.
5. Fun/social thing: do something pleasurable every day (read, eat raspberries—doesn’t have to be a big thing but has to be consciously enjoyed).

Earnest English (From week 4)
-Grounding: get adequate sleep! Eat well. Active self-repair on stressful days: baths, music. Meditate or yoga or stretching twice this week.
-Spirited: get back to therapy and HS; get book from library; schedule music lessons when we get the money
-Gardening: check artichoke seeds; find saucer and take mint to work
-Plan and plod: look at and record journals; look up some things for class; recommendations; work on annual report; schedule Big Meeting; go get stuff for presents (Store 1 and Store 2) and do something nice for Imbolc!
-Writing Project: keep morning time for writing (not work!); 1x this week and regular research
-Big Continuing Project: figure out what needs doing on Tuesday and do it

Elizabeth Ann Mitchell (From week 4)

Finish grant application.
Finish staff evaluations.
Compile questions for Orthopedics

Good Enough Women
1) Pay bills
2) Make X-ray appointment (or, better yet, get Xray).
3) try to find a new primary physician (I don't have one right now)
4) Draft conference paper (which shouldn't be difficult because I'm pulling it from a diss chapter)
5) Walk dogs a lot.
6) Attend one yoga class (it's been SO long).
7) Clean/tidy the study.

heu mihi
1. Finish research book, including notes. That's about 25 pages/night.
2. Schedule meeting with relevant Dean re. second project.
3. Exercise: Not daring to plan. Just do what I can to get back on track once I'm feeling healthy enough.
4. Outline ch. 4 section/conf. paper 2.
5. Complete draft of book proposal.

Humming42
1 Read 4x
2 Write 4x
3 Write a full draft of Scary Conference Abstract
4 Use morning writing to decide about whether to write The Thing about Things (which is due at the end of the week, so a quick decision and action required)

JaneB
1) deliberation, mindfulness, call it what you will. Finding and/or being the calm point in the chaos. I'd like to keep up the sugar-ban and the gratitude journalling (which for me affects the rest of the day more than you'd think, because I start to register stuff like, say, the colour of the sun on the tops of the bare trees at sunset, or a student saying thank you that helped, and think, oh, maybe this could be a gratitude entry, and that makes me take the time to actually be grateful and enjoy the moment). And also think a bit more about what deliberation looks like more widely, in a highly reactive job.
2) an hour on Ferrett - keep plodding!
3) TWO hours on the grant (I wish I'd never started) - I finally got trained on the new grant recording and approvals system last week (another new computer system) so I'll aim to do an hour of setting up all the little boxes in that, and an hour on the text, hopefully leading to sending the text bit out for the first round of internal review.
4) get to Friday with all of the following week's teaching prepared and some bureaucratic paperwork started
6) write and give unexpected internal seminar (OK that's more TRQ but it's going here as it's research...)
5) declutter something noticeably (preferably one side of the kitchen. The kitchen is EMBARRASSINGLY AWFUL, it's not just messy, it's becoming unhygenic 

Karen
1. Don't check email until after writing - start on residency application for 10 mins at the start of each work day.
2. Go to yoga class at least once, make time to focus on breathing each day.
3. Corral managerial stuff into a designated timeslot.
4. Write very short high priority list for each work day.

KJHaxton
- an hour a day writing 
 - three sessions of manuscript editing
- three sessions of course prep/adminfrustration
- continue the crochet and knitting projects

Susan
1. Tidy desk. If I do this, I'll be at January 1.
2. Write abstract for my outside paper
3. Control use of social media, which so easily sends me into a tailspin.
4. Read? 

Waffles
1. Draft study design for grant
2. Finish analyses and results section for relat paper
3. Finish report
4. Review and add to combo paper
5. Draft huffpo piece

Week 5: already?

Continuing the discussion of calendars, one of the tricky things is the way different ones overlap. Obviously the academic year doesn't run in tandem with the calendar year. JaneB has written, chez elle, about the odd gaps and overlaps created by superimposing an American-style semester on shorter, old-style British terms. I'm sure we've all had the experience of realizing that administrators' year-round notion of the calendar is not playing well with faculty's notion of semesters (or quarters, or terms) alternating with breaks that may not be breaks from work but are for different kinds of work. Academic parents deal with their children's school calendars not lining up with their own. I've just finished the third week of the semester at LRU, and have joined nicoleandmaggie's February challenge to write an hour a day, every day, so those two calendars feel fairly new; but here we are in week 5 of the TLQ group, a third of the way through already.

Can these multiple calendars be helpful, a spur to productivity, or are they just confusing? If you could put everyone on the same schedule, whose would you choose?

Your goals from last week:

Contingent Cassandra

--keep trying to stay ahead of, or at least on top of, teaching tasks
--get back to moving as cold wanes
--make at least chili and pesto
--do some financial stock-taking
--check in with brother
--begin blog for online class; continue other work

Daisy

on break

Dame Eleanor Hull

1. House: don’t worry about it. Just pay the bills, cook, do the crucial errands; if there’s energy/inspiration over for decluttering, then go for it, but if not, that’s okay.
2. Research: carry on with the “touch” project; try to read/note three items this week.
3. Teaching: update Blackboard, grade one set of papers, track down that story.
4. Health: exercise of some kind at least one-half hour per day; ankle rehab exercises daily; weights three times; at least one yoga class at the weekend. Sit 3x.
5. Fun/social thing: do something pleasurable every day (read, eat raspberries—doesn’t have to be a big thing but has to be consciously enjoyed).
                       
Earnest English

-Grounding: get adequate sleep! Eat well. Active self-repair on stressful days: baths, music. Meditate or yoga or stretching twice this week.

-Spirited: get back to therapy and HS; get book from library; schedule music lessons when we get the money

-Gardening: check artichoke seeds; find saucer and take mint to work

-Plan and plod: look at and record journals; look up some things for class; recommendations; work on annual report; schedule Big Meeting; go get stuff for presents (Store 1 and Store 2) and do something nice for Imbolc!

-Writing Project: keep morning time for writing (not work!); 1x this week and regular research

-Big Continuing Project: figure out what needs doing on Tuesday and do it

Elizabeth Anne Mitchell

Finish grant application.
Finish staff evaluations.
Compile questions for Orthopedics

heu mihi

1) Read another big chunk of research book
2) Get 1 week ahead on grad class reading
3) Get back to my running schedule (MWF)
4) Tinker with intro and chapter 1, so that I'm at least touching my writing
5) Make some notes on first 30 pages of research book

humming42

1 Read 3x
2 Write 4x
3 Spend an hour working on rbp
4 Check in on pink hat research

JaneB

1) deliberation, mindfulness, call it what you will. Finding and/or being the calm point in the chaos.
2) an hour on Ferrett
3) an hour on the grant I wish I'd never started
4) get to Friday with most of the following week's teaching prepared
5) declutter something somehow

KJHaxton

- finish marking (1st year papers, 2nd year reflective diaries)
- review manuscript, send off other review
- edit collaborative paper that came back as a revise and resubmit
- try to learn to crochet

Susan

1. Finish last 30 fellowship apps.
2. Tidy desk
3. Use time at favorite exotic library on Friday to write abstract, and start preparing for Monday's seminar.
4. Control use of social media, which so easily sends me into a tailspin.
5. Don;t let myself get too sick. Let this just be a cold.

waffles

1. Finish this draft of relat paper
2. Revise aims and strategy and work on innovation
3. write report