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Sunday, 18 October 2026

2026 Session Three, Week Seven

(One more week till midterm check-in on session goals, if you want to think about that. If you'd rather pretend time isn't going this quickly--sorry I said anything, as you were, carry on!)

Week seven is time to make an Unexpected Discovery in your house which will lead to Confronting a Complication From Your Past. Tell us about your discovery, how you made it, and how it connects to some Past Thing or Person. Whatever it is, confronting the thing will improve the situation and lead to a happier life for all concerned!

How did you do with last week's goals? What are your plans for the coming week?

Daisy

Enjoy travels with sheep and shows!

Dame Eleanor Hull

- work on both M and S projects this week
- 2 "write first" mornings, 3 "exercise first" mornings
- grade one set of papers
- finishing touches to syllabuses, load more stuff to the ViLE
- make 1 phone call to schedule a shot
- do one annual training
- get back to latest round of editing tasks
- remove clothes from Chair of Doom
- work on Wednesday afternoon & do something fun on Friday after 3

Heu mihi

1. Exercise
2. Write 3000 words
3. Sit twice
4. Get external review as done as I know how (I have two co-authors, so I'm not alone on this)
5. Revise self-study document
6. Just...a whole lot of administrative stuff that I don't want to detail.

JaneB

SELF CARE
3x20 minutes of movement
reading, 1-2 creative things in addition to Inktober doodling, 1 social thing (online D&D - one game is taking a pause because two regular players are in a Christmas musical performance and rehersals are stepping up, but the other is still active)
LIFE ADMIN
Look at possible sofas
Don’t get lots more stuff
TEACHING/WORK ADMIN
Sort out slides for fourth and fifth week lectures
Survive this week's classes
Do "cold spot analysis", sigh.
Nag people to reply to review emails.
RESEARCH
Process more model outputs
Make list of all the other ‘ongoing stuff’
Finish step one part one for Systematic Review
Work on re-re-rewrite of the group paper I got cross about in late September and left aside to calm down
Attend meeting for paper I'm helping redraft

Julie

1. Prep two different lots of seminars.
2. Carry on writing new lecture.
3. Paper for workshop: at least one full day.
4. Email catch-up.
5. House/life admin: get flu jab, go to medical screening, request a prescription, make dentist's appointment, ring plumber, take contact lenses for recycling.
6. Self-care/fun: run x 3, read, journal, lunch with two friends on non-working day.

Susan

House
Do 5 boxes a day for three days
Take things down to storage unit, figure out what I really need to keep
Shop for new TV since the sound on mine has gone
Clear one box labeled "Miscellaneous office", most of which is probably trash

Work:
Finish reading book MS, draft my part of tenure case analysis on the research (which is excellent, so a pleasure in all sorts of ways)
Get draft of paper to be given at conference next weekend
Start on short paper for the conference the following weekend
Send email to colleague who is here at My Favorite Library and plan to get together

Life
Keep up with exercise - pick up on walking
Go to first choir rehearsal
Organize getting together with friends


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