TLQ: the movie! (2023 Session 3) Week 10: in which we're all harried

Where’s my production assistant? There you are! We need to—oh wait, let me grab this intern. You, take this angora yarn and polished oak crochet hook up to JaneB’s yurt, and try to talk to her about the shopping list—

Hello? Oh, no, this is a great time, I’ve been wanting—

Have you ever known a movie that wasn’t over budget? We need to—

Stick the hook into the angora and slide them both—

No, I was talking to the intern! About Padraic—

While you’re up in that direction, stop at Cassandra’s cabin and ask if she wants nuts—

No, no, you’re not nuts at all, I understand your concerns! But we’re out here in the middle of nowhere and we can’t replace Padraic now. We need—

Well, if we’d started with the cheap whisky, it wouldn’t be a problem, but he and the raccoons got used to the good stuff and now— The unicorn? Listen, that was a bargain, especially compared to renting the castles, which was such a great idea you had, by the way, and you should see the footage we got with the unicorn last week! I’ll get the production assistant to send over a few minutes of video and you can—

Grab the intern before they leave and have them check with Susan about both the shopping list and cleaning; how often does she want the sheets changed?

I was saying we’ll change the schedule if you insist, but really at this point the cheapest thing is likely to be just to barrel on through, getting all the footage we can while we’re here on the island and Padraic is actually on site (there’s nowhere he can go, right, and eventually he’ll get bored with the raccoons), and then I’ll handle the editing when we’re back—

Hey, you can pre-edit some of the footage for me, right? Put it on your fancy laptop and send a few minutes to the home studio fossils—

Bosses! I said bosses! We really appreciate your belief in this project! One of the talent is knitting you a sweater—

Yes, of course it’s hypoallergenic. HYPOALLERGENIC. I didn’t say a word about hypodermics! Whisky and red wine are the most—okay, I understand, talk to you—

Is the intern out of sight? Yes, make mine a double. And for Cat’s sake, order more before the home office cancels our credit cards. I’m sure it’s an empty threat, but just in case. The home office always gets fussy at about this point in filming, but they booked us in here through the middle of December, they know where we are and what our situation is, it’s not like we’re filming in the studio. Once the Christmas movies start to come out, they’ll leave us alone again. We just don’t want JB to come out himself to check on things.

Check with the cast about what would help the most to get them through the next few weeks. Linen sheets, more cats on site, merino blankets, ice skates, ice machine, snow machine, I don’t care, just keep them happy. Interviews? I guess we could ask them to talk about a rough time in their careers and how they got through it, but be gentle, I think some of them are having a rough time right now. If they’d rather talk about their favorite games or make a plan for something else they’d like to do on the island, that’s fine.

Contingent Cassandra (held over)

Professional:

--Grade as many as possible of the composition proposals
--Make some progress on grading lit process work

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

Personal:

--2x some kind of movement: stretching, weight-lifting, long or short walk
--Initiate 2 key email exchanges for church committee work
--Get in touch with at least one young-adult niebling

Daisy

Mark midterms
Mark reports and grad papers
Accounting for community organization
Thesis defense (as external reader)
Paper meeting and revised draft
Introductions for both new papers

Dame Eleanor Hull

- take care of new car problem (already done, actually)
- swim at least once, cross-trainer twice, weights twice, walk at least once, yoga more or less daily
- write another assignment for mini-class
- grade a set of papers
- research 1 hour x 5, mainly Latin, conference paper project; ten minutes a day on KW chapter
- look at some MS images (being consultant to another scholar)
- do some mending
- set up and use calendar pages in Moleskine
- work with my husband on winter trip plans

Heu mihi

1. Many many meetings, comprehensive exam session, coffee hour for program, more meetings, BLAH BLAH BLAH
2. Read 25 pp. of advisee's dissertation
3. Work on ch. 6 x 6
4. Ch. 2--more loose ends
5. Accompany kiddo on church youth retreat (I'm hoping that I'll get some work done??)
6. Now that it's lighter in the mornings, run at least a few times!

JaneB (held over)

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

Julie

1. Teaching prep (one lecture)
2. 3 x meetings (1 difficult, 1 useful, 1 blah)
3. Article revisions
4. Conversation about work for research assistant.
5. Read PhD thesis for viva in 2 weeks time.
6. Find people to fix two house problems
7. Go to farm shop to stock up.
8. Take some stuff to charity
9. Exercise
10. Make soup, try some new recipes.

Susan (held over)

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.