Hello!
Lots of us are traveling this week, some more on the work side, some on the fun side, and it feels like the summer is getting to the complicated part where we’re trying to fit many things into smaller and smaller spaces.
So, a simple flower this week – lovely pansies from my neighbour’s pots… They can make a wonderful visual impact even if they are small, and even a small pot of them can cheer up a whole deck or garden bed… And to me it does not seem that they have to work at it very hard it, it just sort of happens. Especially in the little miniature ones that self-seed in lawns!
For the prompt if you feel so inclined, what is something you do naturally or easily that people seem to be very impressed with, or makes them particularly happy, or makes an impact larger than the effort you actually put in? And, bonus challenge, can you do a bit of it this week?
Goals below!
Have a wonderful week!
DEH
Enjoy travels!
JaneB
SELF-CARE:
* 3x20 intentional movement, 2 x making, 2 x small things with people, reading
every day
* pacing myself more (three days work can get done over 4 or 5 days, I don't
need to push past brain-says-no
* do a couple of things from the "tasting menu"
HOME AND ENVIRONMENT:
* 75% of chores
* spend half an hour or so researching the living room project
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
* Do at least one block of T prep, various meetings
* an hour on tedious task
* integrate bits from the meeting last week into first semester slides for the
first years.
* Do required training for school leaver results handling
RESEARCH:
* Meeting about next steps on modelling project, draft a new section of text if
time
* reread and revise Rejected Paper
* do native speaker check and technical check for another paper
* check over my projects list.
Julie
1.
Big Article - leave parked on downward slope.
2. Check ILL loans, return those due back this month, read as necessary and
with 1 in mind.
3. Prep for tricky interview panel on Thursday.
4. Answer emails that need answering before I leave.
5. House/life admin: find shoes for wedding, pack for weekend, Canada prep that
can't be done last minute, transfer savings from one account to another.
6. Self-care/fun: read, journal, keep up running, watch Tour, colleague's book
event on Thursday, enjoy wedding.
heu mihi
Have
fun!
Susan
1.
Finish copy-edits for Big Collaboration
2. Do library stuff to plan research trips for summer
3. Contact a few friends about getting together
4. Pick up needlepoint project
5. Read for pleasure
6. Get back into deliberate exercise beyond walking
Daisy
Start
on dossier by doing content list and section outlines as required
Go to the beach, even if it has to be for field work with students
Do one fun thing with friends
Do student trips
Work on paper data
I love the deep velvety colour of that type of pansies! I'm having travel envy this week, and feeling sluggish and incompetent - my sister's family just spent a week in one of my favourite parts of England, the northern border, and kept sending me photos! And I managed to twist and injure my "good" knee earlier in the week which turned into ankle pain, honestly, I am so incompetent at being a human some weeks it's funny!
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* 3x20 intentional movement, 2 x making, 2 x small things with people, reading every day one because of Hurty Knee, yes, yes, yes
* pacing myself more (three days work can get done over 4 or 5 days, I don't need to push past brain-says-no ish but still had a very idle weekend, my brain just did not want to do anything even though the weather was nicely seasonal
* do a couple of things from the "tasting menu" yes but see below
HOME AND ENVIRONMENT:
* 75% of chores not quite
* spend half an hour or so researching the living room project no, but the decluttering lady and I finally managed to spend half a day doing a variety of projects including progressing that project, so it counts!. it exhausted Mr Shoutypants, he had to supervise us all through two day time nap sessions and then meticulously sniff everywhere he likes to spend time which had been deep cleaned, he was completely wore out!
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
* Do at least one block of T prep, various meetings no, yes
* an hour on tedious task no
* integrate bits from the meeting last week into first semester slides for the first years. began
* Do required training for school leaver results handling done!
RESEARCH:
* Meeting about next steps on modelling project, draft a new section of text if time yes, started
* reread and revise Rejected Paper yes, and it came back to me again for some extra details and checking, SIGH efficient collaborators!
* do native speaker check and technical check for another paper yes
* check over my projects list.yes
NEXT WEEK:
I HAVE to get to some teaching prep work! Thankfully this week SHOULD have space as it has very few meetings in it. That can lead to lots of work, or can lead to me being overwhelmed and giving in to the tired/I don't want to feelings (or being distracted by fun things or new ideas).
SELF-CARE:
* 3x20 intentional movement, 2 x making, 1 x small things with people, reading every day
* pacing myself (although I wonder if effectively working on four days last week contributed to the feeling that the "weekend" was a wash/just recovery time?)
* do a couple of things from the "tasting menu"
HOME AND ENVIRONMENT:
* 75% of chores
* spend half an hour or so researching the living room project
TEACHING AND ADMIN:
* Do at least one block of T prep, one meeting
* an hour on tedious task
* finish integrating bits from the meeting last week into first semester slides for the first years.
RESEARCH:
* work on modelling project 1-2 hours
* reread and revise Former Visitor Paper
* final (hopefully!) touches on Rejected Paper