What was yesterday even [status, work]
May. 14th, 2025 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterI think yesterday morning's rowing practice wore me out more than I'd realized, maybe largely because it was in combination with a number of other happenings.
When I'm worn out, it becomes a lot harder to think clearly, and to plan.
So at work I mostly just focused on some simple tasks, like changing out fish tank water, attempting to organize the bike pile, and chatting with colleagues about strategies to try and get students to actually read things. (I wanted to discuss this with colleagues for the sake of coordinating approaches across classes, so habits developed/enforced in years 1 and 2 can be brought up again for students taking my upper-level Animal Phys class).
Then I went home early and managed to get a bit more done on household randomness (e.g. baking a fresh batch of muesli, playing with the cats).
In reality I still have a lot of organizing work to tackle right now. But right now is also a precious window of time for Thinking projects; I have a week and a half before I'll go on a bike touring trip, and as soon as I get back I have a month of quality time with my research student team, who are going to need a lot of attention this summer.
And just typing these sentences out caused me to dig through some files to send an email I was getting ready to send back in January, before the semester ate me. So, yay. Progress.
But as usual, with writing and thinking work, there will be spurts of blogging, and then periods where all my writing juice will be going elsewhere, heh.
Onward.
When I'm worn out, it becomes a lot harder to think clearly, and to plan.
So at work I mostly just focused on some simple tasks, like changing out fish tank water, attempting to organize the bike pile, and chatting with colleagues about strategies to try and get students to actually read things. (I wanted to discuss this with colleagues for the sake of coordinating approaches across classes, so habits developed/enforced in years 1 and 2 can be brought up again for students taking my upper-level Animal Phys class).
Then I went home early and managed to get a bit more done on household randomness (e.g. baking a fresh batch of muesli, playing with the cats).
In reality I still have a lot of organizing work to tackle right now. But right now is also a precious window of time for Thinking projects; I have a week and a half before I'll go on a bike touring trip, and as soon as I get back I have a month of quality time with my research student team, who are going to need a lot of attention this summer.
And just typing these sentences out caused me to dig through some files to send an email I was getting ready to send back in January, before the semester ate me. So, yay. Progress.
But as usual, with writing and thinking work, there will be spurts of blogging, and then periods where all my writing juice will be going elsewhere, heh.
Onward.
