Topic of the week: favorite, or most-used, kitchen tool or gadget? Is it new/fancy, or an old friend that might have seen better days?
And to extend the topic into metaphor, what new or old gadget or routine helps you with writing or getting things done? Is there something you need to pull out of the cupboard and put to use? Something beat-up that you could replace with a newer, shinier version, such as a new ritual writing mug or notebook?
And how did you do last week, or during the last couple of weeks? We hope those missing in action (CC, Daisy) are doing all right, and send our good wishes your way!
Latest weekly goals set:
Dame Eleanor Hull
- make weekly schedule for the rest of summer
- campus day tomorrow, meet with two grads, spend 30 minutes tidying my office
- swim x 3, yoga x5, get up early enough to walk on days gym is closed, or else climb stairs somewhere with a/c
- send e-mails related to last week's conference
- identify and contact reviewers for edited volume (v much past due: what's more TRQ than TRQ??)
- read and note three articles or chapters
- create syllabus for one to-be-proposed course
- fireworks! Dinner with friends! 3 x 20 minutes in the garden!
- organize the guest room closet and shelves
heu mihi (held over)
1. Finish book to review
2. At least 50 pp. of Italian novel
3. Keep my inbox(es) fairly clear
4. Finish green sweater that I don't really like
JaneB
1) building better habits: one creative thing with the hands, keep reading for pleasure, start a new yarn project, take some time to think and journal about what "better habits" really are, get a bit ahead on D&D preparation
2) Environment: get caught up on chores, start decluttering study etc. room
3) blocks: make some lists and set up a July Plan
4) writing: no goals
5) grad students: no goals
Julie
1. Claim expenses
2. Check revisions to a PhD thesis and sign off.
3. Report on chapter for review.
4. Outline one of the chapters I have to write.
5. House stuff: catch up, book a hotel room for a regatta trip in two weeks time, do some research for summer travel.
6. Read, get back to exercise, finish TV series before I see any more spoilers.
Susan (held over)
1. Make sure power point is set up for talk
2. Read paper one more time. Do I dare read off my i Pad?
3. Spend some time with microfilm
4. Read essay for young scholar
5. Enjoy the workshop
6. Get ready for vacation
Hello. Favourite kitchen implement - it varies - I tend to stick to a small set of tools for a while then change everything up. I do love my air fryer in this weather - much less heat loss and energy use than the oven. And have an unreasonable fondness for a not terribly wonderful cheap knife that I think I bought when I was an undergrad (definitely not long after) which is still my go to basic knife in the kitchen. And a good metal baking sheet - for cookies, and for all kinds of "one sheet meals"...
ReplyDeleteWhat habit works? Weekend (often Sunday evening) Meetings With Myself. Writing when I'm stuck, or confused, because it unsticks my thinking. Using pen and paper (especially a good pen) to bounce around ideas and structures and plans and to dump out the contents of my brain before I organise it.
THE WEEK JUST GONE -at least it cooled off...
1) building better habits: one creative thing with the hands, keep reading for pleasure, start a new yarn project, take some time to think and journal about what "better habits" really are, get a bit ahead on D&D preparation did several noodly sort of paintings, read somewhat, did not start a new yarn project (still having some issues as my fingers heal from the stupid heat rash, plus it involves decisions), thought but did not really journal (feeling overwhelmed), got a couple weeks ahead on D&D prep on the current "filler" game
2) Environment: get caught up on chores, start decluttering study etc. room mostly caught up. Decluttering Person session was rescheduled to tomorrow (Monday) because it was hot and humid here... third time lucky?
3) blocks: make some lists and set up a July Plan did make some lists, did not make a July plan, that felt a bit big...
4) writing: no goals managed that!
5) grad students: no goals managed that!
COMING WEEK:
Back to work. And the forecast is for increasing heat again towards the end of the week. Sigh! Still zero motivation...
1) building better habits: one creative thing with the hands, keep reading for pleasure, start a new yarn project, journal
2) Environment: do week's chores, start decluttering study etc. room
3) blocks: one teaching block
4) writing: do some work on the collaborative paper with a deadline
5) grad students: catch up on feedback to PhD students; meet with all students.