Good morning everyone!
This is a special week at our film set, we are hosting a group of interns from the nearby film school! This is a great opportunity for us to pass on some hard-won wisdom and hang out with lovely young filmmakers who are starting their careers. Your interns will be following you around and engaging in various assigned tasks throughout the week. They will also be writing reflective essays when they return to their course, so they may have some questions for you along the way. Please make them feel welcome, and enjoy the time with enthusiastic students!
To get you in the mood for intern week here are some questions… Answer whatever you feel like, as always!
What advice would you give your former self if you met you at a major transition point in your life?
What was the best advice you ever got from people ahead of you?
What do you wish someone had told you earlier in life?
Reports from last week as always…
Dame Eleanor Hull
- swim twice, cross-trainer & weights twice, walk at least once,
yoga
- revise assignments for mini-class
- research 1 hour x 5, mainly Alms chapter, also some time on Latin, conference
paper project
- do some House Task (or garden, or Life Stuff)
Contingent Cassandra
Prepare for big church-committee planning meeting tomorrow (Sat)
Julie
1. Teaching prep for next week and after - now less urgent, but
would be good to keep on top of.
2. Finish report for committee.
3. Finish grading conference abstracts (can do this in short bursts)
4. Finish sorting notes and photos.
5. Work on grant application.
6. Finish packing up kitchen (work starts Wednesday)
7. Exercise if feeling well enough.
Heu Mihi
1. Read through 1/2 of chapter 2
2. File sabbatical report
3. Write, circulate, and get feedback on hiring requests
4. Italian presentation
5. Process article revision for journal
JaneB
a) pace myself, allow time and space for counselling/GP stuff and
reacting to counselling,
b) reinstate some key habits - move intentionally for at least 10 minutes a
day, 5 fruit & veg., picking up spaces that get messy, filling in my daily
log, taking vitamins.
c) basic environment stuff - catch up with bin emptying, laundry, dish washing,
filing financial papers
Work stuff, not divided into three categories for now:
d) do email triage on no more than two week days for no more than 2 hours total
e) go through paperwork for Individual Risk Assessment for overwork and stress,
and draft out my responses
Fun: (I consider this medicinal in the current circumstances)
f) at least a couple of blocks of time reading, crochet, and playing or preparing
D&D. Do the next seven Inktober sketches, never mind which day.
Susan
1. Read and return 4 more articles from big collaboration
2. Maybe start reading the book that I clearly don't want to read except I do?
3. Spend two hours going through email and trying to get it under control
4. Keep up with classes
5. Organize room for end of term party, deal with budget stuff, schedule a
gazillion meetings, and other administrivia
6. Do something fun at the weekend or before
7. Healthy eating/ exercise / sleep
Daisy
Edit paper draft from post-doc based on comments from colleague
Complete PITA grant application and send to readers
Finish/edit professional magazine piece
Go to bed early every single night
Trip at end of week
Are any of the interns good at grant writing? If so, they are very welcome to shadow me...
ReplyDeleteAnother great prompt. I think the major transitions for me were starting a PhD and then transitioning to post-doc. For the first transition, my advice would be: pin down your research questions sooner rather than later, so you don't waste time floundering. For the second, it would be publish as quickly as you can, keep research the priority.
Best advice was probably: if you want to have a baby, have a baby. Life will adjust around it, and you shouldn't wait for anyone's permission.
What I wish someone had told me earlier: it's ok to say no.
How I did:
1. Teaching prep for next week and after - now less urgent, but would be good to keep on top of. - Did the most urgent i.e. tomorrow morning's lecture, realised notes and articles were in office, so postponed the rest.
2. Finish report for committee. - YES
3. Finish grading conference abstracts (can do this in short bursts) - YES
4. Finish sorting notes and photos. - YES (had already done most)
5. Work on grant application. - maybe about an hour.
6. Finish packing up kitchen (work starts Wednesday) - YES (no choice)
7. Exercise if feeling well enough. - Not until today (run). Weather was awful for a lot of the week anyway.
I probably did too much, given the Covid, but I did slow down and rested a lot of Friday and this weekend. I wasn't too ill, but I did feel very tired in the evenings and generally low on energy. It didn't help that my kitchen is now an empty shell after two days of workmen in the house, and there is dust everywhere. I spent the two days lurking upstairs and not getting that much rest because of the noise.
This week planning to pace myself and not get too tired. So...
1. Essential teaching prep.
2. Schedule meetings with dissertation students.
3. Read dissertation proposals (only 3).
4. Look at referees' reports on article, work out which comments to deal with.
5. Prep for seminar and workshop I'm chairing next week for guest speaker.
6. Walks in autumn sunshine if it continues.
7. Book appointments and haircut for kids.
This seems like a lot, considering COVID. Good luck keeping yourself from overdoing it this week!
DeleteUgh, nothing worse than workers in the house when you feel grotty and want to just chill/nap/be... take it gently!
DeleteCOVID + kitchen demolition is, indeed, a lot.
DeleteAnd pacing yourself seems wise. It seems that for a lot of people (including me), an extended period of tiring easily is one of the major effects of COVID, even with vaccinations in play to stave off the more serious effects.
And my grad department had one very famous feminist scholar who advised students (mostly but not only female) to have children in grad school if they were in a position to do so, since it didn't get any easier for some time after that. From what I've seen friends and colleagues experience, that seems like reasonably good advice.
DeleteHope the pacing is going ok and you are getting some recovery time! Good luck with the kitchen!
DeleteIt's so distracting and disrupting to have people in the house! I hope the remodel goes fast and without hiccups.
DeleteHmm. I actually think that I followed the advice I would have given myself when I got my first job: stay true to the questions *you* want to ask, and don't just try to fit in to whatever "everyone" is doing. It was much better not to get tenure for a book I believed in than for something safer.
ReplyDeleteAdvice I got? Not sure I got much, and none that I followed. Stubborn that way!
What do I wish I had been told earlier: saying "no" is allowed.
How I did:
1. Read and return 4 more articles from big collaboration - ONE
2. Maybe start reading the book that I clearly don't want to read except I do? NO
3. Spend two hours going through email and trying to get it under control NO
4. Keep up with classes YES
5. Organize room for end of term party, deal with budget stuff, schedule a gazillion meetings, and other administrivia YES
6. Do something fun at the weekend or before YES
7. Healthy eating/ exercise / sleep YES
As is clear from the above, it's been one of those weeks. The world is a terrifying mess, and work is crazy. The administrivia took over. Some was the dean making decisions that generated responses from grad students and then walking them back, requiring us to do lots of work. (That was two different issues. Kill me now.) Then an administrative staff person who had worked with students in our program died, so I had to write a notice which involved getting info from 4 different people, and making sure the tone was right because her son is one of our students, and then buying flowers & doordash gift card... And then a key got stuck in a lock and on Friday afternoon there is no one on campus to help... all little stuff.
I am SO tired. One night I was wiped out, heading to bed early, when I discovered that Ginger George had vomited on my pillow, sheets, the headboard, and the wall behind the headboard. So I had to change sheets, move the bed, vacuum, scrub the wall, etc.
But I finally caught up on the LMS for both my classes, and I've told the deans that I need help because the trivia is overwhelming the serious work I need to do on curriculum etc. Anyway, the week is over.
Next week: limited goals, because I head to the first of my fall conferences on Wednesday. Thursday I get to go to a really good museum exhibit, and see lots of friends. There will be good food and drink and interesting talks.
1. Finish at least three more papers from Big Collaboration and send them back. If I'm doing really well, I'll do more, but not going to pressure myself.
2. Get the next week of LMS stuff posted before I go.
3. Prepare for conference
4. Have fun at conference
5. Try not to worry too much about what's happening at home.
That sounds like a tough week. I hope the conference is fun, and gives you a rest.
DeleteThat sounds like a LOT. Especially bed time vomit. Honestly, I would have probably slept on the sofa and sorted the vomit the next day!!
DeleteOh, my. Dealing with decanal declarations and grad student reactions and walking back sounds bad enough (though somewhat par for the course in my experience; administrators don't always seem to be all that good at anticipating all the potential consequences of their declarations, or consulting with those who might be able to do so), but dealing with the death of the staff person with a son in the program is really hard. It sounds like you're doing all you can to support him, which is good -- but one more thing on your plate.
DeleteHope the conference, including friends, talks, food, and drink, is restorative.
And I tend to be stubborn about advice, too (which may explain why I can't currently remember any).
DeleteHope your conference and museum trip are both fantastic ad restorative and inspiring and all the good things that can come from those kinds of trips!
DeletePoor George! I've been there. I hope things got better from there.
DeleteAdvice to my former self - push harder for mental health support (not just medication), for screening for neurodiversity, and complain properly about bullying and toxic environment stuff.
ReplyDeleteStop being so obliging! People will like you or not regardless of whether you work yourself to the bone. But if I could do that I wouldn't really be me... Oh, and try MUCH HARDER to move from Northern Uni in the first 4-6 years when you had a moderately successful looking grant track record and publications and might have been able to move to somewhere where you would have been able to flourish. Or at least feel less constrained.
Best advice: I don't know about best, but things that hang around and repeat (and come out of my mouth to people junior to me) include
"you have to choose between perfect and done, you can't have both"
"send work to referees/co-authors when you think it's adequate rather than waiting for it to seem really good, you'll be much more open to their suggestions, the break from it will make YOU a better editor, and it speeds things up",
"be kind - and remember kindness and niceness are different"
"no one is liked by all students"
"never let an 18 year old ruin your day" (especially relevant around evaluation questionnaires)
And now my brain is pulling up lots of negative things, so, gah shut up brain. Today I actually did some things (which included triage on my work email) and my brain is tired and being mean to me as a result. The work guilt is very loud, but so is the grinding tiredness, brain fog and misery that comes with looking at work things for more than an hour or so at a time. Which is not normal - even when I'm really stressed, I still enjoy aspects of my work normally, and get into things. Sigh! Oh well.
I probably should not be allowed near the interns, I'm doing the world-weary cynical thing right now & I'd hate to make them feel bad (or be dismissed by them as an old timer who should have quit the profession for being so mean & grumpy & not appreciating their luck!). Hopefully it will pass soon, I don't like this affect but I seem to be stuck in that mode for the moment!
LAST WEEK:
a) pace myself, allow time and space for counselling/GP stuff and reacting to counselling, ish!
b) reinstate some key habits - move intentionally for at least 10 minutes a day, 5 fruit & veg., picking up spaces that get messy, filling in my daily log, taking vitamins. twice, most days, some days, yes, yes
c) basic environment stuff - catch up with bin emptying, laundry, dish washing, filing financial papers caught up on basic laundry, not caught up but progress on bins (just the recycling to tackle now) and dishwashing, no progress on financial papers
Work stuff, not divided into three categories for now:
d) do email triage on no more than two week days for no more than 2 hours total about 4 hours last week because, well, student need, and MUCH to my surprise my project idea for a PhD went through so I had to do some paperwork related to getting the advert put together
e) go through paperwork for Individual Risk Assessment for overwork and stress, and draft out my responses made notes. Kept getting tripped up by my reasonable side which kept pointing out that the problems identified were not caused by or within the control of my line manager but, well, I made notes. Which I can go back and work on some more.
Fun: (I consider this medicinal in the current circumstances)
f) at least a couple of blocks of time reading, crochet, and playing or preparing D&D. Do the next seven Inktober sketches, never mind which day. reading some (less appealing book choices), no crochet, played D&D as a player and prepared and played D&D as DM. Did all seven sketches.
Even without work, the basics are still not very cooperative about getting done!
GOALS FOR THIS WEEK:
DeleteSo I'm still signed off this week...
a) pace myself, allow time and space for counselling/GP stuff and reacting to counselling, morning pages
b) reinstate some key habits - move intentionally for at least 10 minutes a day, 5 fruit & veg., picking up spaces that get messy, filling in my daily log, taking vitamins. (keeping the last two because it's nice to have some easy wins!)
c) basic environment stuff - catch up with bin emptying, dish washing, filing financial papers. keep up with laundry!
d) do at least one thing from the non-basic environmental stuff list (little jobs)
Work stuff, not divided into three categories for now:
e) do email triage on no more than two week days for no more than 2 hours total
f) write some coherent points for the Individual Risk Assessment/Reasonable Adjustments requests I'll need to discuss on return to work
Fun: (I consider this medicinal in the current circumstances)
g) at least a couple of blocks of time reading, crochet, and playing or preparing D&D. Do the next seven Inktober sketches, never mind which day.
h) make cards, wrap & send two packages - a birthday present for my Aunt and a Hallowe'en care package for my nibling (their parents have gone on a parents only holiday leaving the nibling home alone for the first time ever - nibling SHOULD have been at university in halls but since they did badly in one exam and have decided to have a year "out", they are at home... and in sole charge of the dog, which means they have to get up on Dog's Breakfast Time, leave the house every day with the dog etc).
Some good advice there, especially re: when to seek feedback on a project, and when to consider it done. My grad school roommate and I occasionally considered needlepointing a pillow or sampler or something with "a done dissertation is a good dissertation" on it, but of course that would have been yet another means of procrastination, so we didn't.
DeleteAnd this:
DeleteMUCH to my surprise my project idea for a PhD went through so I had to do some paperwork related to getting the advert put together
Seems like good news, give or take the paperwork, so congrats!
'Never let an 18 year old ruin your day' is great advice. As is 'be kind'. Sorry things are still tough. Also, it doesn't matter that things are not the fault of or within the control of your line manager. They are still responsible for figuring out solutions, or making sure someone else does. That goes with the territory of being a line manager.
DeleteYay for the PhD project idea, I hope that is a bright spot despite the paperwork.
DeleteHope the week has been quiet enough to allow for rest and recovery and some fun as well!
I hope your time off work is starting to do you some good. You've been having a hard time for quite awhile.
DeleteI admit that my first reaction is “eek! Interns!?! oh, nooo!” This might have something to do with the fact that, as part of the response to various pressures related to budget models and class sizes, my department is currently planning to create some much larger lecture-style core courses which will come with TAs to run discussion sections and grade. That’s fine if not ideal, and what many of us experienced as undergrads, at least if we went to R1s, but those of us on a 4:4 mostly writing-intensive load are not at all convinced that one of these large classes plus 3 composition sections is a manageable load (in fact, we’re pretty sure it’s not), and we’re a bit concerned that, once our tenure track colleagues (who have 2:2 loads) figure out just how much work mentoring TAs (and dealing with undergrad complaints re: TAs) can be, we’ll be under pressure to take those classes anyway. We’re assured that that will not be the case, and I believe the people saying it now; I’m just a bit apprehensive about what their successors may eventually say/do if the pressures continue.
ReplyDeleteThat said, I’m sure these interns are very nice, and a week’s worth of shadowing isn’t the same as trying to run a large class with the “help” of people who may or may not be entirely up to being actually useful.
Advice to younger self:
--If people’s and/or institution’s words and actions don’t match, and/or if the facts and patterns you’re observing on the ground don’t fit what you’re being told is the case, lean toward believing actions and what you’re observing, and make choices accordingly. In my case, this went for both the reality of the academic job market vs. the advice I was being given, and the reality of changing family patterns and priorities vs. declared intentions and priorities. I do find myself telling actual young(ish) people – mostly 20-somethings – to look at what is working for people 5-10 years older than they with similar goals and priorities, and to take that data at least as seriously as advice from people who pursued similar life and/or career goals a longer time ago, in what may have been a very different world. The older folks mean well, but that doesn’t mean their advice will actually work. Of course in that situation I’m an older person giving advice, so they can make of that what they will. At least my advice seems a bit more adaptable/flexible than some they may be receiving, and seems to be welcome.
Best advice I received:
--I’m sure I received some good advice, but it’s not coming to mind right now. Maybe it will sometime this week.
What I wish someone had told my younger self:
--It’s okay to quit/change plans (I probably should have switched grad programs after I passed generals, since my department basically fell apart at that point, but I don’t think I even realized that was a possibility)
--It’s okay to be single/not to want to be married and/or have children (at least under currently-prevailing gender roles, structures for child care, etc., etc.)
(Abbreviated) goals for last week:
Delete-- Prepare for big church-committee planning meeting tomorrow (Sat).
Yes, and it went fairly well, as has the follow-up, which is ongoing. There’s a lot going on at church right now, including upcoming retirements and related transitions as well as stewardship/pledging season, and I’m co-chair of one committee that is directly affected by the retirements/transitions, but not on some of the committees that are making the decisions. I have been on such committees in the past, and am not clamoring to be again (it’s a lot of work), but *am* trying to figure out if there are really problems with the information flow to volunteers less “in the know” and to staff trying to plan transitions, or whether some of the frustrations I and others are feeling are inevitable given the situation. I think it’s a bit of both, and I’m trying to figure out whether and what to say to whom about that.
I did push hard enough in a follow-up conversation on Sunday that I got some information that I’m technically not supposed to have (yet), but that is really very useful to playing my part in the situation as well as possible, and permission to pass that information on to one other person who really needed it, too, so that seems like a positive. Of course I’m also enough of a play-by-the-rules person to be mildly uncomfortable with having/having pressed for information I’m not “supposed” to have (and didn’t appreciate receiving it prefaced by “since you’re obviously upset about this”).
On the other hand, there seems to be a probably-not-coincidental gender division between those who are feeling free to both demand and share information as they see fit and those who are “playing by the rules” (and you can probably guess which gender is which). And it’s also working out (probably also not coincidentally) so that financial donors/potential donors are getting more information than volunteers (aka those who give more time than money, though of course the two aren’t mutually exclusive), even though one could argue that the two groups have at least an equal need for information (and/or equal reason to be told to trust the process and not demand more information than they’re being given).
tl;dr: this is all taking up some time, and more energy/mental space, than I’d prefer, but it’s also important, not least to treating a long-time employee and their work respectfully as they prepare to retire (even as there seems to be general agreement that we’ll soon be changing more than that person would prefer).
Goals for the coming week:
DeleteProfessional:
--Grade at least ½ (preferably 2/3) of the composition proposals.
--Try to provide reasonable support to composition students who are struggling to catch up without shortchanging those who have kept up and need to move forward based on the feedback I’m in the process of providing. (This is a perennial problem, and if anything seems worse this semester, even though – or maybe even because – I’ve done a better job of keeping up with feedback this semester than many semesters recently. I’m trying to draw boundaries, especially re: needing to follow directions designed to make feedback more efficient in order to actually receive feedback, with mixed success).
--Make some progress on grading lit process work (they also have midterm exams that need to be graded, but they won’t be doing anything similar until the final exam, so triage dictates that those go on the back burner, at least for the week)
Household:
--Finish fall sowing in garden
--Measure and mark new location for compost pile and begin turning/moving
--Do at least one thing that gets something out of or better organized/containerized in the apartment (boxing family books that were passed on to me by my stepmother in grocery bags seems like the best option, but any progress will do)
Personal:
--2x some kind of movement: stretching, weight-lifting, long or short walk
--Continue followup on church committee stuff as needed (might as well admit this will continue to need time)
--Get covid and flu shots (and if recovery from that knocks out some of the goals above, so be it; so far, I’ve been fairly lucky when it comes to reactions or lack thereof)
Looking at people who are 5 years ahead is great advice! I feel that some advice I was given that turned out to be not so helpful came precisely from well-meaning people for whom that advice had worked, but in a very different context. Now, for example, I am very honest with graduate students about the realities of the job market and advise them to have a Plan B that is something they genuinely could enjoy and make a go out of. I probably wouldn't get a job today with the qualifications I had when I did get a job. It's frightening how much the goalposts have shifted.
DeleteLove the advice about comparing things that are said vs. done and making choices accordingly... and also for taking into account the experiences of people just ahead of any stage instead of just the super successful ones from bygone times...
DeleteHope the covid shot went well!
Last night I took my nephew and his girlfriend (both in grad school) out to dinner, and she asked me for advice about work-life balance (!!!). I passed on your suggestion of asking the 5-10 years older crowd, as I felt anything I had would be out of date and irrelevant, though I also put in a plug for exercise and looking after one's physical health.
DeleteGlad it was helpful. I think the plug for exercise/looking after physical health is a wise one; one caveat to the 5-10 years idea is that what people can do for 5-10 years, especially in their twenties and early thirties, isn't always sustainable or wise. (And of course there's always the problem of lives seeming more successful/manageable from the outside, especially in the days of social media.) I think the advice works best if the observer has multiple data points, but those aren't always available.
DeleteAdvice to younger (college/early 20s) self? Honestly? Getting boys to want to kiss you is not as cool a superpower as you think it is. In fact, it's dead easy when you're, you know, 19. Knock it off.
ReplyDeleteProfessional advice for younger (20s/early 30s) self? Learn to network. (That in itself is terrible advice; presumably I'd have a better way to present it if this were a real scenario.) Talk to people at conferences, and not just the grad students who seem nice and non-threatening. Learn about how universities work. Stop denigrating your own work and abilities out of a fear of getting called out for your inadequacies.
Strung together like that, it's awfully harsh.... I would try to find a nicer way of saying it, of course. (I was once publicly scolded at a dinner at some event or other--by an older woman I had just met--for saying that a course I was assigned to teach at my newish job was on a topic that I was in no way qualified to teach. She stopped the conversation at our table and told me, with terrifying firmness, NEVER to talk about myself or my work that way. I was mortified. But it was a good lesson? Badly but memorably delivered?)
Last week was extremely busy, but somehow I did all the things on my list:
1. Read through 1/2 of chapter 2 - DONE
2. File sabbatical report - DONE (took like 15 minutes, to be fair)
3. Write, circulate, and get feedback on hiring requests - DONE, although "get feedback" is an amusing goal and was only partially completed
4. Italian presentation - DONE
5. Process article revision for journal - DONE, during a kung fu class (my son's, not mine)
This week:
1. Handle excellent grad student's oral exam defense
2. Hold many many meetings
3. Straighten out the final spring 24 schedule problems
4. Get the fall 24 schedule as functional as possible
5. Finish reading through chapter 2
6. Start planning abstract for March conference (due 11/1, so I need to get on this)
That's pretty heavy on the service and very light on the research, but it's all I can think of at the moment....
Hurrah for doing All The Things despite a very busy week!
DeleteAnd yes, when it comes to advice giving, delivery (including mode, place, tone, and audience or lack thereof) matters, a lot.
DeleteNot denigrating our own abilities is such a huge thing! I wish I could bottle that skill and hand it out to so many of my students and some really awesome colleagues who are way too hard on themselves...
DeleteYay for lots of done things!
I was once at a small conference where, during a break, the organizer started running herself down, and a distinguished senior scholar (also female) said, "Why would you say things like that about yourself?" in tones of great dismay. It made quite an impression on several of us! Maybe that's the good advice I couldn't think of when I wrote my own post, below.
DeleteAdvice for my undergraduate self: While I absolutely love my career and it worked out brilliantly I would say try harder to go to medical school… you don’t have to be a people-loving extrovert to be a good doctor…
ReplyDeleteBest advice received: (after having a kid) Do not ever do house work when you are alone in your house. Use that time for yourself, or do work you care about. House work is often invisible, and doing it all when nobody is there reinforces the idea that the magic fairies do all that work, so use the time for something else and clean when people know about it and even better offer to help…
Wish I knew earlier: that shorter exams can test just as well as longer ones…
Last week’s goals:
Edit paper draft from post-doc based on comments from colleague SORT OF
Complete PITA grant application and send to readers NOPE
Finish/edit professional magazine piece DONE
Go to bed early every single night UNTIL TRIP, THEN NOT EVEN CLOSE
Trip at end of week DONE
Last week was insane, and this one is no better, have another trip this week (less fun than last one), and yet another one coming up the week after. I am barely keeping up, so goals will be minimal. I am way behind on the grant, I might get it done. If I don’t it is not the worst thing in the world, but I would like to get it done.
This week’s goals:
Complete and submit PITA grant application
Another trip, mostly not fun, at end of week
Edit paper draft from post-doc
I agree with Julie, that is brilliant advice about cleaning. I hope all your travels go smoothly.
DeleteThe advice on cleaning is brilliant. So wish someone had said that to me! Commiserations on the tough week. The pace sounds exhausting.
ReplyDeleteHOW did it get to be Friday already? I'm sorry I've been absent this week! I mean, I've had the post open for days, and enjoyed reading comments, but have not managed to get it together to post. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteAdvice I'd give my younger self: DTMFA. Take a lot of ibuprofen and don't panic. Oh, professional advice? Don't take the "opportunities" offered by AF and BB; they will eat time and not lead anywhere. Figure out what work YOU want to do and stick to that. Don't write so many conference papers. Work on learning to write up your ideas as articles.
I wish someone had told me to look at people 5-10 years ahead of me---that was brilliant, Cassandra! I can't think of any good advice I got from someone else, which sounds very sad. It seems like there must have been some, but it's not coming to mind.
How I did:
- swim twice, cross-trainer & weights twice, walk at least once, yoga: YES
- revise assignments for mini-class: NO
- research 1 hour x 5, mainly Alms chapter, also some time on Latin, conference paper project: YES I think; definitely Latin and the conference paper thinking/reading.
- do some House Task (or garden, or Life Stuff): YES, cleaned the deck but then rain moved in so I still haven't painted the deck and I don't know when I'm going to get that done.
New goals, almost same as the old because it's Friday:
- swim twice, cross-trainer & weights twice, walk at least once, yoga
- revise assignments for mini-class; grade a set of papers
- research 1 hour x 5, mainly Latin, conference paper project
- do some House Task (or garden, or Life Stuff)
Some weeks are like that! Hope the last bit of the week goes well...
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