And it is August… The days are distinctly shorter than in June, the trees are a deeper green, the delicate pinks and whites of early flowers have been replaced by hardier flowers in shades of yellow, orange, and purple. The berry harvests at all the farm markets are bigger every day, and the late summer feels alternately like it is still stretching ahead, and simultaneously like it is evaporating like mist on a sunny morning… So, in the spirit of celebrating harvests and colour, two of my absolute favourite things about this time of year which are cheering me up considerably at the moment…
First, the wild blueberries are mostly ripe! These were from a work spot today. We sat in the berry patch and ate low bush blueberries for a good half-hour before doing any work at all… A moment of pure fun in a very busy day that started at 5am and I was seriously grumpy about doing at all. A lovely unexpected gift that will be remembered with a smile!
Second, the rudbeckias are flowering! These are my favourite late-summer flowers, and I want my whole garden full of these cheerful, unapologetically bright flowers. Working on that…
If you feel so inclined, share a moment that cheered up a rough day this week. And for the bonus, a plan for how to fit something like that into next week?
Good luck with the first week of August!
Goals below, with placeholders for our traveling friends!
DEH
-
plan out the rest of the summer, mainly work, but also fitting in the fun
summer things plus some Life Admin & Habitat Maintenance
- finish M paper & PowerPoint
- finish W revisions
- finish fracking frelling horrible editing
- swim 2-3 miles, cardio 2-3 times (maybe a bike ride?)
- see friends visiting from out of town
- write letters or e-mail various people, including sending postcards acquired
in France; also send present to youngest great-nephew & organize present
for great-niece
- don't panic! Divide and Conquer!
JaneB
SELF-CARE:
* 3x20 intentional movement, 2 x making, 1 x small things with people, reading
every day
* pacing myself (and knowing the following week is "off", if I work
part days on the two really hot days and then finish some things up on my
non-work Friday that will be fine).
* 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
* finish integrating bits from the meeting last week into first semester slides
for the first years.
* mark any resits/long extension tasks that are submitted on time
RESEARCH:
* complete revisions and resubmit the multi-author paper for the second time.
* work on modelling project 2-4 hours (want to get some long runs set up to go
in the background whilst I'm off)
* meeting about Former Visitor Paper
* Annoying paper with former PhD student and the very slow collaborators has
come back with comments, so go through that and at least list out what needs
doing.
* prepare for meeting the Monday I get back from leave
And try and tick off a few of the small items that still need doing but have
been getting copied from list to list since late May!
Julie
Traveling!
heu mihi
1.
Finish reading materials for promotion letter; draft letter (can do a lot of
this on the train)
2. Write at least three days, no pressure re. how much
3. Help son with his bedroom
4. Exercise three times, in addition to city trekking
5. Enjoy New York!
Susan (held over)
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
Work on dossier and make actual progress
New
student chapters
Organize next field work trips, one this week, one next week
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