tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post455712392714154926..comments2024-03-27T21:39:17.479+00:00Comments on Top Left Quadrant: Week 13: the highs, the lows, the middlingJaneBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17779448611795379774noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-79436989261508536712023-04-26T09:27:17.279+01:002023-04-26T09:27:17.279+01:00Great article! I completely agree with your points...Great article! I completely agree with your points about the importance of trauma counselling in today's. Your insights on how counselling have really helped me understand the benefits of incorporating trauma counselling into my own counselling . Thank you for sharing your expertise and knowledge, and I look forward to reading more from you in the futuretrauma counsellinghttps://onlinecounsellingclinic.co.uk/online-trauma-counselling/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-4222171099734020082021-04-11T08:35:21.113+01:002021-04-11T08:35:21.113+01:00Great article.
متخصص وکالت تهرانGreat article.<br /><a href="http://advocacy.unblog.fr/" rel="nofollow">متخصص وکالت تهران</a><br />alihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11835830755852577356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-12566400437789405642017-04-06T20:28:37.147+01:002017-04-06T20:28:37.147+01:00Thanks for the direction, DEH.Thanks for the direction, DEH.Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-4324776183268632982017-04-06T13:15:49.075+01:002017-04-06T13:15:49.075+01:00Deep work does take time and focus. Cal Newport ha...Deep work does take time and focus. Cal Newport has a blog and a book about it.Dame Eleanor Hullhttp://dameeleanorhull.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-45288717764837633272017-04-06T06:34:50.359+01:002017-04-06T06:34:50.359+01:00EAM, Regarding CC's plan, the main thing I did...EAM, Regarding CC's plan, the main thing I did was start using my moleskin calendar again to maintain and track my to-do lists, and as part of that tracking I put in the dates when I'd be receiving batches of essays (through the end of the semester). Just doing that one thing gave me amazing view of the lay of the land, so to speak, and I was able to be much intentional about when I would grade what and how fast I needed to do it. Because my grading load is so heavy, just mapping those big things made a huge difference for my work life. <br /><br />And, yes, I'm eager for #6! And I'd forgotten about sushi until I looked back at the goals today . . . Good Enough Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16531793545583712309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-54332169479908859992017-04-06T00:44:16.801+01:002017-04-06T00:44:16.801+01:00I find it demoralizing to feel cr*p on a morning w...I find it demoralizing to feel cr*p on a morning when I had plans to get things accomplished, especially if I've cleared the decks for it. That is one of the few times I have wished for a Groundhog Day type do-over.<br /><br />Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-23021528600864196482017-04-06T00:39:33.010+01:002017-04-06T00:39:33.010+01:00I think 6 is your most important goal. The freedom...I think 6 is your most important goal. The freedom of not worrying/feeling guilty about the dissertation is worth celebrating. <br /><br />I admire Contingent Cassandra's semester-long plan, but I can't seem to get much beyond a month. I may work on it, though!Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-46622447663744006572017-04-06T00:36:49.555+01:002017-04-06T00:36:49.555+01:00I hate when my day is chopped up. Despite all the ...I hate when my day is chopped up. Despite all the time management gurus who say that one should be able to work in small bits of time, I just have to have some length of time to do any deep work.<br /><br />I also work better with a plan of x words for the day, although I tend to do that more for fiction than my research, which is often time-based. I putz around more with fiction, so time is more slippery.<br /><br />Short is good!Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-89838980345424416482017-04-05T18:26:25.381+01:002017-04-05T18:26:25.381+01:00Yay for being done with chemo! I hope you feel up...Yay for being done with chemo! I hope you feel up to SOME celebration.<br /><br />(Also, I'm impressed at how much you are tracking while doing the chemo.)Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-67334191428502050792017-04-05T11:33:15.819+01:002017-04-05T11:33:15.819+01:00That's unfortunate, and all too familiar, Susa...That's unfortunate, and all too familiar, Susan.Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-8954557784784263762017-04-05T10:51:51.620+01:002017-04-05T10:51:51.620+01:00Wooo hooo from me as well. That is very good news!...Wooo hooo from me as well. That is very good news!Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-9878217313299248182017-04-05T10:47:41.462+01:002017-04-05T10:47:41.462+01:00I'm so glad you're back, and I agree with ...I'm so glad you're back, and I agree with DEH that you are an inspiration, as you fight the Slough of Despond.<br />Welcome back!Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-54237224598416946702017-04-04T23:56:30.773+01:002017-04-04T23:56:30.773+01:00How wonderful to be done with that! May it be a th...How wonderful to be done with that! May it be a thing that Stays Done, forever.Dame Eleanor Hullhttp://dameeleanorhull.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-1297072294259995502017-04-04T19:30:08.264+01:002017-04-04T19:30:08.264+01:00Woohoo, indeed! That's fabulous!Woohoo, indeed! That's fabulous!Good Enough Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16531793545583712309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-6237458165482605792017-04-04T17:28:58.557+01:002017-04-04T17:28:58.557+01:00And I've just had my last chemo! Woooo hoooo!And I've just had my last chemo! Woooo hoooo!Circehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17646237311802933183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-39699695000334758142017-04-04T11:05:10.697+01:002017-04-04T11:05:10.697+01:00Great topic. There's been too many bad days th...Great topic. There's been too many bad days the last couple of months. Good days are typically characterised by having a variety of tasks to do that all take at least 45 mins. Not so fragmented then. I think find it helps to do that type of thing in the morning and have a longer stretch on a bigger task in the afternoon. I am not distracted by email (it's turned off or I only reply the next day), or by having to make phone calls etc. I don't really notice time passing in the same way. Bad days are ones where email derails me continually. I've been trying to do what I'm referring to as 'email sprints' where I reply to as many things as possible in 30 mins or an hour. Then just turning it off but as email is the major source of drama and last minute things to do for work. it's a major force of evil. Obviously some bad days are due to side effects of medical treatment and I struggle with the combination of feeling like I just want to read a book or watch TV while hiding under a blanket, and feeling obliged to get through some stuff that someone else has decided was urgent (generally due to their poor planning). I don't work well when I feel resentful or in pain/discomfort/whatever the word is that best describes chemo side effects.<br /><br />Last week<br />1. collaborative paper - make edits and send to coauthors <b> partially complete </b><br />2. poster for conference - plan and work out data <b> partially complete </b><br />3. marking marking marking <b> some done, more to do </b><br />4. adminfrustrashing - finish off the last bits <b> reasonable progress </b><br /><br />This week<br />1. collaborative paper - finish my edits and make a decision on the ethics bit<br />2. poster for conference - finish<br />3. marking marking marking - finish<br /><br />I think that's enough for a chemo week. Circehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17646237311802933183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-38018503447672880692017-04-04T05:48:23.369+01:002017-04-04T05:48:23.369+01:00Good luck with the rest of the interviews! As som...Good luck with the rest of the interviews! As someone said to me when I applied for the dean job, there are advantages and disadvantages of internal candidates. But at my place I see a consistent denigration of the skills of internal candidates, esp. women. Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-71854799356468602362017-04-04T05:43:44.494+01:002017-04-04T05:43:44.494+01:00I think so! It turns out that writing about 20th C...I think so! It turns out that writing about 20th C literature is a real challenge for this historian! (I call it "Way Outside" because it's outside time and discipline for me!)Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-75132393807834314862017-04-04T02:18:49.798+01:002017-04-04T02:18:49.798+01:00Topic: Bad days and good days
As Waffles and KJ sa...Topic: Bad days and good days<br />As Waffles and KJ said, my good days are when I have a to do list prominently displayed, and like heu mihi, it has been written and given priorities the day before, so I can just jump right in. I also do better when I write first thing, while the coffee is brewing and no one but the dog is awake with me. I then feel virtuous for the rest of the day.<br /><br />For me, bad days are when my ADD makes me focus on the first thing I see, which is usually not the most productive use of my time or energy. Also, as GEW mentioned, an attack of “sudden urgent administrivia” is a guarantee that I will not be productive. Beyond having to deal with the urgent matter, I’m usually ticked off that I had to deal with it on an emergent basis, and it ruins the flow of the day.<br /><br />Last week’s goals:<br />Survive the four days of interviews. DONE<br />Incorporate research notes from last year’s trip. NO, but found more I had written and forgotten about.<br />Reserve time for transcription and scholarly thought. NO<br />Doctor’s appointment Wednesday. YES<br />Pack for the weekend in New York City. YES<br /><br />How I did:<br />The interviews are just painful to get through, honestly. I sit and think that I would answer that question better, hold eye contact better, be more on point. . . . I fear what Susan mentioned last week, that I will constantly think that I could do the job better than the new hire for the foreseeable future. Two more days of interviews this week, and two next week, and then the torture will be over.<br /><br />I was asked to rewrite each and every one of my staff evaluations, which soured my week (see bad days above). They have no impact on promotion or pay, so having my boss suggest deep revisions (twice in one case) is infuriating. I wish I could be a better person, and move on to things that matter, but I fume and sulk, and only have the attention span to clear out files and email. So, the research notes and scholarly thought were absent, sadly.<br /><br />For the good news: the doctor said I am completely healed, and gave me three more weeks of PT. That’s honestly better than asking me to do it on my own, so I’m happy. Also, I, DH, and sons number 1 and 2 met daughters number 1 and 2 in New York over the weekend, and had a very nice time. It had been nearly two years since the six of us were all together, and it was great.<br /><br />Next week’s goals:<br />Survive two more days of interviews.<br />Meet with staff about evaluations.<br />Begin blind review of article.<br />Write up research notes.<br />Continue Latin transcription and translation.<br />Do version control on the iterations of the book and correct filenames across cloud storage and hard drives.<br /><br />Move like water, float like mist. Here’s to more good days than bad in the coming week!<br />Elizabeth Anne Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733237123376048432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-16497489679394532802017-04-04T00:09:06.446+01:002017-04-04T00:09:06.446+01:00How I did:
1. House: get all tax stuff to account...How I did:<br /><br />1. House: get all tax stuff to accountant, and make one room presentable. YES, NO but made some progress.<br />2. Research: 5 x 15 minutes on the MMP R&R, and at least one session of two hours on it. NO. Maybe twice on the 15 minutes. <br />3. Teaching: 5 x 15 minutes grading, and hope that I'll at least not get more behind than I am now. Talk to colleague about student H. YES, did quite well with grading, and YES to talk.<br />4. Health: continue regular gym workouts 3x/week, stretch every day, eat safely, go to bed early. YES. <br />5. Fun/social: track restorative activities to find out if I do them regularly. YES: a nice combination of reading, sewing, TV and coloring.<br /><br />Last week was a very bad one for insomnia. I’m impressed that I achieved as much as I did.<br /><br />My bad days have more to do with health/energy/sleep than anything else, and so may be unpredictable. There is little that I find more demoralizing than making a reasonable plan the night before, then waking up feeling awful and completely lacking the mental fortitude to do anything on that list except the simplest and most rote items. Planning by the week is helpful because I can fall back on simple tasks on bad days. On a good day, I feel energetic and can focus; if there’s something I don’t get to, that’s okay, I just postpone it, without feeling like I’ve failed. One of the goals of my efforts with the low-FODMAP diet is to have more good days.<br /><br />This week:<br />1. House: make two rooms presentable. <br />2. Research: 15 minutes x 3 days, plus one session of two hours, on each of two projects.<br />3. Teaching: 3 sets of assignments, plus two small sets of revisions.<br />4. Health: continue regular gym workouts 3x/week, stretch every day, eat safely, go to bed early, add walking on non-gym days, now that I have good walking shoes.<br />5. Fun/social: track restorative activities to make sure I do them regularly. Consider whether Wednesday gathering is worth staying up late for.Dame Eleanor Hullhttp://dameeleanorhull.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-38106453549635115202017-04-03T13:39:27.569+01:002017-04-03T13:39:27.569+01:00Bad days: Surprise snow days - we've had 5 in ...Bad days: Surprise snow days - we've had 5 in the last two weeks - a few are fine but this is ridiculous. Worst days are when someone else's incompetence causes trouble that I have to fix and it derails everything I've planned. When I get to the end of the day and cannot show anything concrete for it...<br /><br />Good days: well-planned ones, clear outcomes, and enough research that even the admin stuff feels like part of a bigger goal. My time-tracking has helped enormously with this since I can see every single way where my time went. It has been really encouraging to have that concrete feedback, especially when I'm working n long-term stuff that is not conducive to a "done" list because they are ongoing and evolving. The last three weeks of tracking have been extremely efficient, and way more fun than I imagined. Should have done it years ago!<br /><br />Last week:<br />1: Contract report, now a giant TRQ problem DONE<br />2: Read some key papers and plan for analytical time coming up DONE<br />3: Draft of results and discussion for one paper (related to contract, so can do this as a set)PARTLY DONE<br /><br />This week's goals:<br />1) Finish results and discussion for paper above, add figures for results section<br />2) Plan next week's analytical time carefully<br />3) Pick one other paper and figure out next steps<br />4) Run outside at least twiceDaisynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-47140573138035248492017-04-03T12:06:21.253+01:002017-04-03T12:06:21.253+01:004300 words is great progress!4300 words is great progress!Dame Eleanor Hullhttp://dameeleanorhull.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-42394554735983227232017-04-03T07:27:13.815+01:002017-04-03T07:27:13.815+01:00I don't really know if the sugar thing is help...I don't really know if the sugar thing is helping, but I need to give it time to work, and although I'm not losing weight (grrr) I am definitely eating better and more intentionally - so I'm sticking to it at least for the rest of Lent, then will have some candy at Easter and observe what happens...<br /><br />Yeah Brexit day was very depressing, and the posturing since, oy vey, so embarrassing! And I made the mistake of ringing my parents about something else that day, and they're very pro Brexit rah rah, and it really took a LOT of emotional energy not to go off on one... and I still get thrown off badly by not being on roughly the same page as my folks politically, it's a new thing and I Don't Like ItJaneBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17779448611795379774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-22153909372034243192017-04-03T07:20:07.147+01:002017-04-03T07:20:07.147+01:00Mmmm, I like float like mist too - mist is just ab...Mmmm, I like float like mist too - mist is just about the opposite of invisible and I've been feeling very invisible/inaudible of late, which makes me kind of shrill and annoying I'm sure - must isn't shrill, it's just THERE. Something to cultivate...JaneBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17779448611795379774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2607718568717088162.post-74953745092326486342017-04-03T06:28:33.012+01:002017-04-03T06:28:33.012+01:00Hmmm. For me, since having time to putz around is...Hmmm. For me, since having time to putz around is important, a good day is when the putzing is incidental to working. When I'm bored, or overwhelmed, the putzing and procrastinating takes over. This past week was mostly good, because I had one or two days when I had no other obligations. (The email continued, and I even had some meetings, but. . .)<br /><br />Goals:<br />1. Hammer out first draft of Way Outside. NO, BUT A GOOD START (4300 words)<br />2. Walk three times: TWICE<br />3. Take one day completely off -- maybe go up to the mountains and hike for a day, or go to the beach and walk. NO: REALIZED 1 and 3 were at odds; but did take a bunch of naps, and lazy afternoons.<br />4. Don't get too far behind on work. YES<br />5. Finish at least one book. YES (not the one I thought, but it's a book)<br /><br />So, it was spring break, so fewer meetings than usual, but still a few. And the emails continued. While I didn't go away, I did give myself permission to futz around, take naps, etc. And my work on the essay was helped by the fact that late Thursday afternoon, a meeting I had tomorrow 2+ hours away was shifted, so I had to cancel my grad seminar. That meant that I could write today, instead of preparing for class. <br /><br />Goals for this week:<br />1. Finish way outside<br />2. Walk twice<br />3. Read at bedtime.<br /><br />This week has a lot of meetings, but I finish meeting at 12:30 on THursday, and will call in to Friday's meeting so that I just write. Should be able to finish a draft...Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716705206734059708noreply@blogger.com