I confess that I’m an RSS junky: I
probably spend far too much time looking at and reading posts from blogs and
various websites on Feedly. A recently follow is http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/,
where throughout the day I am treated to a marvelous array of museum artworks.
I also appreciate the pinned message from the pseudonymous hosts: “If you are
unsatisfied with your Centuries Past experience IN ANY WAY please see the guard
at the front desk for A COMPLETE REFUND of your admission fee.
Your hosts into collective
[un]consciousness of centuries pasts.”
So I thought I would paste here one of the
images from centuries past that really made my heart sing. You are invited to
offer up a favorite painting, photograph, object, etc. to spread the joy.
Happy change of seasons and change of time
for those of us in the US that are not in Arizona or Hawaii. I am grateful that
our spring break is the first week of Daylight Savings Time to have the opportunity
to properly adjust my natural rhythms to the manipulation of time.
Wishing you the sweet and the savory in
whatever proportions serve you best.
Last week’s goals:
Bardiac:
1 Prepare Thursday presentation
2 Set deadlines / create research plan
3 Grade as much as possible before spring break
Dame Eleanor Hull:
Self: stretch twice daily, cardio or a walk 6x, weights 3x, find
something fun to read over spring break.
Research: finish and upload a chunk; possibly toy with something else.
Teaching: grade a set of papers, finish an assignment, do some
post-break planning.
House/Life stuff: clear necessary areas for more repairs that are
happening this week; tax prep; final de-cluttering of house.
Good Enough Woman:
1) Don't stress about being away from the kids while husband and I are
at a weekend faculty retreat. They are big kids and will be fine.
2) Write 90 minutes, one way or another.
3) Walk 2x. Yoga 1x.
4) Tidy campus office, 30 minutes.
5) Read three SF stories.
heu mihi:
1. Exercise as much as I reasonably can given state of health;
don't feel guilty if I can't make my prepaid yoga quotient for the month.
2. Prep query materials for novel
3. Write 30 mins x 5: 1) polish and send off conference paper;
2) plan Wonder
4. Meditate some amount
5. Grade the rest of the things; other misc. pre-break teaching
prep (get together a prompt and two readings)
6. Read something to do with Time & Space
humming 42:
1 Prepare Thursday presentation
2 Set deadlines / create research plan
3 Grade as much as possible before spring break
JaneB:
1) spend 20 minutes a day on housework
2) read a novel
3) stop constantly checking my work email on strike days as I'm not
answering it so there is no point checking…
Susan:
1. Start working on images to go with keynote
2. Do at least one read/edit of keynote, now that I know how it ends.
3. Keep reading
4. Try to catch up on sleep (from being VERY jet-lagged)
I'm not sure that I know how to add a picture.... Nope, can't figure it out. I was just going to put in a nice sparkly photograph of ice on trees that I took recently (in lieu of taking the time to find something online). So imagine a sparkly tree in the sunshine, with bright blue sky behind it.
ReplyDeleteLast week was not wildly successful. I got over the cold, but it snowed a lot, which means that--between the weather and a scheduled in-service day--my son has now been home for 4.5 days. And it looks like we're getting another 12" tomorrow. Ugh--this week is my break--I need my kid to be out of the house!!!
Last week:
1. Exercise as much as I reasonably can given state of health; don't feel guilty if I can't make my prepaid yoga quotient for the month.
*Yoga x 2; no running. I plan to re-start running today, although I probably won't be able to do it on Wednesday because there will be too much snow on the ground.
2. Prep query materials for novel
*No--although I'd started these before, so they're sort of close. I'm never happy with my hook or synopsis, though.
3. Write 30 mins x 5: 1) polish and send off conference paper; 2) plan Wonder
*A total of about 80 minutes, so I did this 2.67x instead of 5.
4. Meditate some amount
*No.
5. Grade the rest of the things; other misc. pre-break teaching prep (get together a prompt and two readings)
*Yes.
6. Read something to do with Time & Space
*No--totally forgot about this when I realized that it's time to start rereading "The Mists of Avalon" for class. Yay!
This week:
1. Write 10 hours. (My major spring break task.)
2. Read a lot, mostly fun-teaching things.
3. Meditate more than last week.
4. Query a press for novel.
5. Start next batch of beer.
6. Misc. school stuff: grade 2 stragglers, rec letter, clean up email, evaluate proposal.
I can't imagine how difficult it is to get work done on snow days, with son home and the weather limiting what you both can do. I hope spring break unfolds with many things completed!
DeleteAlso, my apologies for creating something frustrating with the suggestion for sharing art. :(
No worries! I tried for approx. 5 seconds. Not enough time for frustration.
DeleteI've seen so many lamenting their own or their children's illnesses as they present themselves during break. I remember last year at break: my husband was leaving town, and my kids had school. I was going to have the house all to myself every day, and I commanded the children not to get sick! They obeyed.
DeleteVery exciting you are nearing the query stage with your novel. Many of us as living vicariously.
Here's hoping for improved health and clear weather!
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ReplyDeleteLike heu mihi, I have spring break this week. My failure to tend to grading means that I have a huge lot of grading to get through, if only I can pace myself and do a few different things every day. I admit that the yearning to read a novel is a bit overwhelming, but I know I will go full-on fiction addiction and just read until I finish the book at the cost of anything else that needs to get done. So I may not give myself that particular treat.
ReplyDeleteLast week:
1 Prepare Thursday presentation: yes, and I was pleased with it
2 Set deadlines / create research plan: kind of, new things coming up
3 Grade as much as possible before spring break: failure, spring break is full of grading
This week:
1 grade like a madwoman
2 prep for conference organizing next week
3 write to Snow editor
4 work on Jewel article
5 check in with book editor
6 work on Happy Music abstract
I too am a literature addict and if asked a la alcohol consumption "how much do you read?" the answer has to be "all of it."
DeleteNovels are the best. I can't not read them, even if it's just before bed.
DeleteGood luck getting through that grading!
I posted an image from yesterday's outing on my blog. I love the dark maroon color of those orchids, though in general I'm not a big fan of phalenopsis.
ReplyDeleteHow I did:
Self: stretch twice daily, cardio or a walk 6x, weights 3x, find something fun to read over spring break. Mostly YES: skipped stretching on the days that we had people starting work in the house at 7:00 a.m.
Research: finish and upload a chunk; possibly toy with something else. YES.
Teaching: grade a set of papers, finish an assignment, do some post-break planning. YES, NO, NO.
House/Life stuff: clear necessary areas for more repairs that are happening this week; tax prep; final de-cluttering of house. YES, NO, NO.
This week:
Self: stretch twice daily, cardio or a walk 6x, weights 3x, do some fun reading.
Research: finish and upload a chunk of translation.
Teaching: give points to some in-class writing, do post-break planning including writing or finishing two assignments.
House/Life stuff: tax prep; final de-cluttering of house; call plumber and electrician (or delegate calls).
Beautiful orchid photo. Why don't you like phalenopsis? They look like the orchids I get at TJ's or the grocery store. Are you not a fan because they are generic and ubiquitous? (I don't know much about orchids even though I read the essay "Orchid Fever" and saw the movie "The Orchid Thief.")
DeleteDEH, I read your spring break update on the blog and hope you're feeling better!
DeleteGEW, you nailed it (and recognized the species). In grad school, I lived with an orchid fancier and learned to prefer the rarer and more difficult-to-rear species.
DeleteThanks, humming42: today is a bit better, though I'm not back to normal yet. I'd still rather deal with this during break than have to either go to campus or cancel a day.
Here are last week's goals:
ReplyDelete1. Figure out the union books for this month.
2. Keep working on vibrato, shifting, double stops (violin). The current piece I'm working on only has double stops necessary, and it's always hard to keep working on the less urgent stuff a bit at a time while trying to work on the current piece.
I finally sat down with the union books, and they are up to day! So that's good.
Violin practice continues, but I'm feeling pretty "stuck" on vibrato and double stops. I think I'm making better progress on shifting. My current piece is quite hard for me, and I'm not feeling much improvement in a given practice session. (But having looked at what Suzuki teachers and parents [since most students are like 6 doing this piece], I'm pretty sure it's a hard piece for most everyone, and lots of people express frustration.)
We have break coming up, but before I get there: I have a midterm to give (today), grade (tomorrow), and return (Friday), and peer revision to guide, and then papers to collect (to grade over the week break).
My house is in the throes of being painted, and now I get to start reconstituting the living room, and then other rooms. I hope the painting progresses well over break.
I really, really have trouble getting useful work done in the 15-30 minute chunks I seem to find. So instead, I goof off. I have to figure that out.
Goals for this week (other than above):
1. Make some plans for spring break (including a guest dog and a friend coming to do a reading when classes begin again).
2. Start writing the section of my project that I worked so hard on at the British Library.
I am with you on the goofing off during small chunks. I do a pretty good job with small tasks in my campus office during those chunks, but it's always administrivia, recording of grades, or something like that. I have a hard time writing in small bursts.
DeleteI'd say it's pretty good use of small chunks to take care of administrivia. Get it out of the way, then you can use the 30-60 minute chunks (when there are some) for writing and important tasks.
DeleteLast week's goals:
ReplyDelete1) Don't stress about being away from the kids while husband and I are at a weekend faculty retreat. They are big kids and will be fine. DONE.
2) Write 90 minutes, one way or another. DONE!
3) Walk 2x. Yoga 1x. DONE! EVEN THE YOGA!
4) Tidy campus office, 30 minutes. DONE.
5) Read three SF stories. I READ A NOVELLA. I DEEM THIS DONE.
It was a good week for TLQ. I even did the yoga (for the first time in months and months of listing in on TLQ). I really prioritized TLQ this week, which was great, but of course now the grading pace has suffered, and I have lots of things coming in.
This week:
1) Grade a medium stack Wed-Sun (7-10 essays each day).
2) Walk 2x, Yoga 1x.
3) Write/brainstorm for novel 90 minutes.
4) Spend hour on article.
5) Pay bills.
6) Help son get oriented for PSAT.
7) Help daughter with costume.
8) Get mammo and ultrasounds done. (I'm cheating b/c I already did this today!! But I want credit.)
What an excellent week! I hope the energy will continue to propel you forward with lots of things coming in.
DeleteYou totally get credit for the med tests! Way to go!
DeleteYes for taking credit for things done today!! I totally put things on my to-do list that I've already done. Whatever motivates.
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