All that means that it is time to review progress this session, celebrate our achievements, note any lessons, and plan for the next few months! That's quite enough of a topic, so I won't suggest anything else. Thanks everyone for taking part, for your company on the journey of scholarship and survival-with-integrity in the modern academy which we're all making, for your comments and inspiration. I'll finish by repeating the poem DEH shared with us in week 8:
What Any Lover Learns
by Archibald MacLeish
Water is heavy silver over stone.
Water is heavy silver over stone's
Refusal. It does not fall. It fills. It flows
Every crevice, every fault of the stone,
Every hollow. River does not run.
River presses its heavy silver self
Down into stone and stone refuses.
What runs,
Swirling and leaping into sun, is stone's
Refusal of the river, not the river.
by Archibald MacLeish
Water is heavy silver over stone.
Water is heavy silver over stone's
Refusal. It does not fall. It fills. It flows
Every crevice, every fault of the stone,
Every hollow. River does not run.
River presses its heavy silver self
Down into stone and stone refuses.
What runs,
Swirling and leaping into sun, is stone's
Refusal of the river, not the river.
Last week's goals:
Contingent Cassandra (carried over)
1) Get grades in (TRQ, but also necessary to having a bit of
time to concentrate on TLQ)
2) Figure out what I'll do when in the next month as much as
possible
3) Keep lifting weights; get in the pool; move some more
mulch if weather cooperates
Dame Eleanor Hull
Self: twice-daily stretching and some form of cardio; get
back to the gym; adjust sleep schedule.
Teaching: finish two syllabuses.
Research: 6 hours (4 x 1.5 hrs).
House: finish packing study and guest room. Garden work as
needed.
Other: campus errands.
Elizabeth Anne Mitchell (carried over)
Walk forty-five minutes a day.
Work on Prudence one hour a day.
File thirty minutes a day.
GoodEnoughWoman
1) Return the ill-fitting pants and shoes I ordered for the
kids.
2) Walk 3x. Swim 1x.
3) Write 500 words.
4) Start drafting course outline for new course proposal.
5) Go through article to change British punctuation and
spelling to American punctuation and spelling.
6) Go to doctor's appointment and move like water in
response to whatever I learn..
heu mihi
This week: Keeping it very modest because it's Friday, so I
have a pretty good idea of what I'll be able to accomplish (= not much; was at
the in-laws' Sun-Wed and have no child care this week):
1. Annual faculty report
2. Process (with help of husband) approx. 50 pounds of paste
tomatoes
humming42
1 submit article review (TRQ)
2 finish chapter 1 revisions
3 spend time working on grant proposal
4 draft rough outline for Snow
JaneB
1) tick off 6/10 of BlackSummerProject
2) work out shape of Picky Paper as it stands
3) Gallimaufrey review and possible grant - collect up
comments so far, pull together, propose tasks others can do, send out emails
4) clear my office desk!
5) enjoy working with the Visitor
6) move more!
Karen (carried over)
1) finish abstract ahead of extended deadline
2) draft theme area grant application
3) do one pomodoro of office tidying
4) move more (2 x yoga, 1 x walk - think about downloading a
couch to 5k app)
KJHaxton
1. trip to big city
2. trip to conference
anything else is a bonus
Matilda (carried over)
1) Finish first draft of Chapter 2.
2) 5-minute-exercises at least twice a day.
3) Find ‘my own 15 minutes’ as many as possible, and do
something.
4) Re-consider my plan.
Notorious, PhD (carried over)
-3000 words this week
-3 yoga/four morning meditation
-One source collection
AND... clean up desk mess!
Oh -- you know, I'm going to add to my list: "Finish
one nagging task." I have three, so I should be able to pick. Decluttering
the mind.
Susan (carried over)
1. Make sure I've ordered desk copies of all books for fall
2. Keep moving
3. Keep reading
Waffles (carried over)
1. Outline for expectancies paper
2. Asthma paper - figure out next steps
3. Email guy from Tennessee
4. pack, clean, pack, clean, and random details related to
packing and cleaning!
Session goals:
Contingent Cassandra
--Make consistent progress toward making at least one kind
of movement (walking, swimming, weight-lifting, gardening) part of most days.
Dame Eleanor Hull
*First six weeks: primary goal is packing up my house and
doing necessary maintenance to sell it. I'm trying to put in 1-2 hours a day on
research and teaching tasks.
*Five weeks in UK: in addition to teaching responsibilities,
which involve field trips as well as classroom work and grading, visit two
places of personal significance, and ramp up the research considerably, since I
will be living a few minutes' walk from a major research library that calms and
inspires me.
*Final three weeks: take a week off from all work, then prep
for the fall semester, mop up whatever tasks need mopping. With any luck,
unpack in new place.
*Product goals: sell house, move; review all sections of
translation that I have yet to review; get two R&Rs out the door (probably
a good UK task); read, take notes, and move my book project forward; finalize
syllabus for UK teaching; plan for fall classes.
Elizabeth Anne Mitchell
Session mantra: Move, contemplate, create
Plan and draft sabbatical request.
Walk at least half an hour every day.
GoodEnoughWoman (GEW)
1) Do all things necessary to get kids set up in their own
rooms (rooms that will be good sanctuaries for them for the rest of their time
at home). This will involve MUCH moving and purging (and building of a backyard
"office/library/studio/witch hut").
2) Eat the rainbow and help my family do the same.
3) Move more and build family practices for kids to do the
same.
4) Just read daily and widely, regardless of topic. As for Dune,
I'm not sure.
5) Write 5x per week, min of 15 minutes. Finish a chapter or
a short story.
6) Since we aren't traveling as much, take advantage of
local attractions and activities.
7) Spend more time on family to improve relationships,
future memories, and bonds. (The relationships are good, but they definitely
played second-fiddle to the PhD for the past year.)
heu mihi
The first three are non-negotiable:
1) Revise Norway talk (by 6/18)
2) Draft tenure statement (by 6/1); revise it (by 7/1)
3) Write ACLA paper (by 6/18)
The other big goal is...finish Book 2! I don't need to have
this done by the end of the summer, strictly speaking, but for various reasons
I want to. This involves the following sub-goals:
4) Revise chapter 3
5) Revise chapter 5
6) Revise ch. 2 as best I can
7) Finish tenure portfolio (which I need to do anyway)
8) Prepare for final read-through (by fixing notes and
obvious problems in some chapters)
humming42
1 As ever, write 5x/week
2 And also, read 5x/week
3 End of month Pop revision
4 Revise and resubmit book review
5 Meet deadlines for Talk project
6 Draft outline for workshop
7 Outline and lit review for Snow project
8 Pick and complete a project to submit for conference
JaneB
1) domestic chaos reduction and self-care
2) having a good set of lists of preparation for late
September, and having the main logistics for the early October fieldtrip in
place
3) submit two ProblemChild papers and have the third close
to ready
4) make good progress on PickyPaper
5) finish and submit that GrantINeverShouldHaveStarted!
6) go through and act on all the notes from SouthernCountry
conference I just attended, the two March Meetings, and the things I've left
aside in my email since January (or at least add them to a single list).
7) slightly stretch: get Ferrett ready for submission, have
a complete draft of Gallimaufrey Review, and have started NextGrant (whatever
that will be).
Karen
1. Put in promotion application
2. Have a documented map of full new degree structure
informed by one feedback cycle
3. Make progress on KL project (application); Grass
(conference paper, data gathering); and Farm (creative work)
4. Create more functional spaces at home with a focus on
lounge room, bedroom, and built structures in the garden.
5. Nurture self with improved sleep, regular exercise.
KJHaxton
1. Complete and recover from treatment, get back to work full-ish time
2. create oral presentation and poster for (assuming
abstract accepted) and attend conference at end of summer
3. Finish big blanket and purple scarf knitting projects
4. Start and finish a printing project
5. Submit ethics form for House project
Matilda
1) Finish the revision of the first drafts of Chapter 2~5.
2) Make a concrete plan of the structure of the book.
3) Establish good eating and exercising habits.
Notorious, PhD
• draft two book chapters (crappy draft okay)
• Revise co-authored article MS (this one's a maybe;
chapters are the priority)
• Go through all papers/files in home & office &
e-mail inbox and throw away or properly file everything.
• Reboot my physical fitness
Susan
1. Desk clearing/deck clearing: I ran away for a bit over a
week in the UK right after the end of our term (a talk and a paper), came back
and almost immediately had to drive my mother 250 miles for an event at my
niece/nephew's school. (Why this is a late check in). My desk/study is a TOTAL
disaster. I need to clear off the stuff from this past year's teaching to make
space for next year, and to be able to work.
2. Course preparation: I'm teaching a new graduate seminar,
and an altered version of a course I've taught before. I want to get ahead on
them so it's not all last minute.
3. Finish Old Conference paper and submit it for
publication. (the proceedings were supposed to become a volume, but didn't, and
I've been encouraged to submit this to a journal.) Probably needs a week or so
of work, but nothing too extreme.
4. Make revisions to "Way Outside", a paper that
took over the last session, when I get comments from the editors. (This paper
is in another discipline (English) and another century (20th) from that I
usually work in, which is why it has it's name.) My hunch is that it's close to
done, but like Old Conference, it needs a week or so to polish it, deal with
formatting questions, etc.
5. New Project 1: I have a plan for a short book that is
largely synthetic. I want to start writing/outlining
6. New Project 2: I am thinking through my next BIG project
(I'm assuming 8-10 years), and I'd like to spend some time reading/thinking
about how I might approach a big broad subject.
7. Read. I have been trying to get back into reading
novels/books.
8. Walk regularly. When I'm not teaching, I need to pay real
attention to keep myself moving.
9. Relax. I just published a book, and I am trying not to
make myself crazy with deadlines.
Waffles
1. Submit trans paper
2. Resubmit aging paper
3. Resubmit relat paper
4. Submit gender paper
5. Submit discrepancy paper
6. Submit PTSD paper
7. Submit scoping review
8. Get a handle on longitudinal paper
9. Figure out story for IPV paper
10. Figure out story for suicide paper
11. Move?
