June-August Journey Week 12

To my surprise, here we are at the end of the 12-week summer cruise. Check

about the cabin, make sure you haven’t left anything behind that you want to

take with you, and mind the gap between the gangway and the dock. Several

of us encountered rougher seas than we had planned, but everyone did an

admirable job gaining their sea legs.

At the end of our session, we co-hosts ask that you look back on your session

goals as well as last week’s. What worked better than you expected? Can you

somehow keep some of that alive during the coming semester? What didn’t

work, but gave you ideas for other permutations to try in future?

If anyone is willing to host or co-host for the fall/spring semester session,

please let us know. As always, it was a pleasure to sail with all of you.

Bardiac

Session goals:

1. Hike a LOT. I need to be ready to do 8 miles x 3 days, in Yosemite

(so up hills at altitude) by the end of July.

2. Start outlining and working on an essay that's part of my sabbatical.

3. Do some sabbatical planning. I have some travel funding...

4. Shorter term: Do a short project for our Women's, Gender, and Sexualities

Program.

and 5. Practice the violin! I'm working on shifting, vibrato, and double stops

especially, and on the second piece in the fourth Suzuki book.

Last week’s goals: (held over during trip out west)

1. Finalize some plans. Since this involves my Mom, it will take time (because

she's communicating with five other people...)

2. Finish weeding. I need two hours before it gets hot. Hopefully tomorrow.
3. Exercise.
4. Pack.
5. Write enough that I feel like I've made progress.

Dame Eleanor Hull

Session goals:

Stay fit and healthy while moving, completing the translation work, and

doing one last set of article revisions.

Keep up with language study and read for my book project.

Prep fall classes.

Last week’s goals:

Self/health: Yoga and cardio at least 5 times each (try for 7), weights 3,

make appointment for eye exam, try to move sleep time to or toward 10-6.

Research: 4 hours revisions, 2 hours language.

Teaching: syllaboi for two classes.

Life Stuff: fill in & mail a form, do car thing, clear some tabs, make a

deposit, find an i.d. number.

Elizabeth Mitchell

Session mantra: “The best revenge is to be unlike him who caused the injury.”

--Marcus Aurelius

Session goals:
Follow the sabbatical schedule without being mental.
Intersperse fun things.
Foster mindfulness.
Move--walk, swim, do Tai Chi.
Create--write, knit, draw.

Last week’s goals:

Take good notes at doctor's appointment.

Enjoy celebratory wine trail.

Read a couple of articles.

Plan the stone removal and after-stone month.

Practice good self-care.

Good Enough Woman

Session Goals:

1) Writing: Complete the bulk of the work for my online SF writing class,

and, in addition to some short pieces, write 10,000 words of a novel.

3) Health: Keep moving my body while on the trip and throughout the summer,

and make sure we often look for light and healthy food options and avoid the

"three large meals a day" mentality that can happen while traveling or while visiting people.

4) Reading: Read at least two books of academic criticism (one c18 and one SF)

and approximately 20 SF short stories (in addition to novel reading)

5) Money: Don't overspend (I know this is vague. I need to figure out how

to frame this one.)

6) House: Clean "my section" of the garage, clean linen closet, clean out freezer,

frame stuff and hang it, clean shelves and cabinet where my work stuff has piled

up, clean out bathroom cabinets

7) Teaching: Prep for fall before I go to LA, clean out office.

Last week’s goals:

1) Rest as much as possible

2) Read three SF stories

3) Write for 20 minutes x2

Heu mihi

Session goals:

1) Mini conference paper (Impatience)

2) Amy abstract

3) Wonder essay

4) Read 16 books--I have a list, but I can swap things in and out, and not all

are research-related

5) Sit regularly; remember to start again

6) Run 5 miles once this summer

7) Make a photo album (I'm like 4 behind)

Last week’s goals:

1. Revise 100-level syllabus for Diversity program I'm a part of

2. Dissertation

3. Read and give feedback on exam rationales for grad student

4. Grad syllabus

5. Reread “Read” (essay I wrote 3 years ago for a collection; just got

feedback; revision is due on Sept. 3!!); make revision notes

6. Sit x 6

7. Exercise x 5

8. Complete anniversary book

9. Brew beer (cheating a bit because I did this yesterday)

10. Make a big pot of tomato soup (tomato season is always a little hectic around here)

11. Email catch-up: student publication; department party; TA mentoring

Humming42

Session goals:

1 Submit Jewel article

2 Submit film review

3 Submit four current book reviews

4 Draft Sweet for September submission

5 End the session with at least a solid outline for Tiny Project

6 Prepare to meet with Overlooked co-author in September

7 Draft abstract for Travel project

Last week’s goals:

1 edit submitted book review

2 write all syllabi

3 make arrangements for reading group

4 add structure to Sweet paper and figure out lit review/methods

JaneB

1) be feeling calmer and more in control of my professional and personal life.

This would ideally involve:

a) the house being noticeably more organised,

b) having a clear, agreed plan for my new admin role in place,

c) have reviewed and prepared for all my teaching for the year,

d) be feeling like I know what my next steps are for writing and research

activities until at least the end of January,

and e) having some better self care habits in place

2) specifically I want to have ProblemChildren1 and 2 resubmitted

3) and measurable progress made on at least Ferret and Gallimaufrey

Review, and probably also Picky and Touchy

4) and a full, rough draft of Gallimaufrey Grant Application

Last week’s goals:

1) self-care: focusing on drinking enough water, on taking time

to eat the food I choose, on moving a little extra each day

(at least back stretches), "sitting".

2) analyse at least 1 sample in preparation for FavouriteIslandsMeeting

3) make travel plans for FavouriteIslandsMeeting

4) Prepare for societything meeting. Enjoy said meeting.

5) spend an hour on teaching prep

6) do NOT think about ProblemChildren at ALL.

Karen

Session goals:

1. Write acquittal grant application

2. Write catalogue essay

3. Get research backlog onto uni recordkeeping systems

4. Complete draft of glover paper

5. Love the idea of book reading challenge so will steal that from heu mihi

6. pick up Couch-to-5k again and do three sessions per week.

Last week’s goals: (held over)

(Mostly going to be semester preparation and service whacking,

so being realistic here)

-Runs on Friday, Sunday

-Write syllabus

-30 min writing time building off idea gathering from syllabus

OceanGirl101

Session goals:

1) finish the majority of writing for my book (complete two of the

four remaining chapters and take notes for the rest)

2) exercise a lot, including going to the gym 3 x a week and

walking/swimming a few hours a week

3) cultivate local friendships and a veggie garden and

4) do some home care and some personal care, including lots of stretching.

Last week’s goals:

1. Finish comments on Info Flow and send to collaborators

2. Look at new graphs for foodwebs

3. Write or work on tables 2 x 4 hours for book

4. Rework two syllabi, varied teaching prep

5. PT for arm x 2, gym x 3

6. 2 fun things

Plant Girl

Session Goals:

1. Research and draft Chapter 5 of my book project

2. Finalize and submit book proposal to first choice press

3. Draft tentative article on plant pornography (yes, you can ask me

about that, and no, it's not my book topic)

4. Reach a healthy balance between work and taking care of myself,

in terms of reading for fun, cooking at home, exercising, etc.

5. Plan for three new courses in the fall.

Last week’s goals: (held  over)

1. Finalize syllabus for first class, including printing out some worksheets,

etc., for the first week of classes.

2. Submit some reimbursement requests (which requires learning where

the dept photocopier is and how to use it).

3. Go to a workshop on our CMS, which I have used before but

am not a pro at.

4. Finally, try not to flounder while my husband is out of town. As someone

with mental health issues I don't do well when my primary support system

is missing, so I try to reach out to friends, but as we all know, academics often

have friends very far away. So my text messaging will go up for sure!

Susan

Session goals:

1. Finish revisions of essay "Violence" -- which is in pretty good shape,

but has been sitting for a few years, so a little bib work is undoubtedly necessary.

2. Read: catch up on journals and I've got three pending book reviews

3. Get ready for the fall semester (overdue book orders, syllabus for new

course, etc.)

4. Keep walking. I've been aiming (pretty successfully) for 10,000 steps a day.

5. Continue clearing out stuff.

a. Get the den to be less of a dump. (mostly paper that I need to confront)

b. Get rid of more clothes that I don't wear

6. Do at least one fun thing with a friend each week.

Last week’s goals: (held over)

1. Revisions on WITCH (minor, but necessary - it may be a "lovely article"

but it isn't quite ready for prime time.

2. Finish syllabi, start building course websites

3. Read 3 more journals

4. Print out Violence, figure out what more needs to be done

5. Read article for review

6. Keep walking

Waffles

Session goals:

1. PTSD

2. Aim 1

3. Asthma

4. YRBS

5. Diss

6. Maybe one expectancy paper

Last week’s goals:

1. Send postdoc report to higher ups (this is cheating, I did this this morning!)

2. Respond to emails from when I was gone! (cheating again as I responded this am)

3. Do review for JMIR

4. Write up YRBS results

5. Work on asthma discussion

6. Aim 1 paper - revise results

7. Figure out next steps for couples study

8. Finish intersectionality section

9. Revisions to body image paper

What Now?

Session goals:

* to finish and send off an article I’ve been working on off-and-on

for a while now;

* to get myself back into physical shape for teaching after a winter and

spring spent sitting and reading;

* to prepare to teach two brand-new courses

* to declutter and streamline our home, which is more cluttered than ever

since I’ve been here full-time for a few months!

* to get myself back into the habit of studying Hebrew and Jewish stuff

more broadly, which has gotten pushed to the back burner in recent weeks.

Last week’s goal: (held over)

1. Keep my head above water!