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Goals Check-In: Week 5 of 9 (Spring)
Note 1: the batteries on the iPod speaker run out quickly. I rather dislike how it seems to be working at bed time and fails in the morning. The chanting before i wake is extremely helpful. But not this morning.
Note 2: I did dream a great deal this morning. No narrative i can put my finger on. A sense of secrecy. A faculty office in some near abandoned wing of a woods surrounded building, with a derelict access as if from a highway, and an associate hawk's roost. The faculty member and i crash in his office for the night. Is he my dissertation advisor? Past advisor? Undercurrent of sexual tension, but the urgency of the secret work overrides personal interests. That's the only fragment i kept -- probably because i was trying to work out if the faculty member was someone i knew (my real advisor?!) or just an archetype. Also, hawk! There was other movement about in an east coast hardwood landscape -- late autumn, cold, damp, and gray -- and pulling things up out of boggy water.
Note 3: Yesterday evening i rebelled against what i "should" do. I had a tension headache by the end of the workday, again, and had a tiny bit of (near undrinkable) wine when i got home as a slight relaxant. Self medication, yes, and a walk would have been wiser. I helped fold the laundry Christine had started. (Part of why walk was out -- the timing to be at the dryer.) I did have a call from my Mom, and i listened to all the ways she frames herself in failure and overwhelm. It's just her chit chat, her small talk, and i think i manage not to do it myself except for here in this space. I don't know how to tell stories of my day to day life easily without lapsing into the narrative of overwhelm, though. I tried telling her about the digital paper dolls.
Note 4: the care committee i'm on will convene at my home today at 3:30. If you could hold me and the three others in the Light (or however you may frame care and love), i'd appreciate it. In particular, the issues are around diminishment with age and chronic illness, and despair.
Now, to rush through my goals, a day late!
0. time ------------------------
* Potential things to do:
** [2→1] Visit the Prel--- library (to get rid of books, sooner?)
** [1→3] Find a time to have brunch with St-- Mig-- (March?)
** [2→X] Time from work to attend Berkeley Statute of Anne April 9-10 ?
** [3→2] time aside for taxes and possible "war tax" protest
** [3→X] meeting retreat
** [3→?] wherecamp
Current conference line up:
* evening Wednesday 7 April (Santa Clara): “What the Surprising Failure of Data Anonymization Means for Law and Policy.”
* May 17-19, 2010: IIW10 (Mountain View): internet identity workshop
* June 21-25 (Raleigh, North Carolina -- hey,annie_r & lola_kristine): inCommon's CAMP & Advanced CAMP.
I need vacation time for June, so i'm definitely saving my personal days (i'll have 2 in June)
Season begins with 11.67 d, and i'll earn 3.3. If i take the contingency time plus the whim, i'll have used up what i earned for the period.
* Potential 1 d2.5d = recovery time around the retreat and wherecamp if i go. Prel-- library may need a wed afternoon off.
* Whim 11-12 Mar: 1.375 days
w4/9: decided Prel--: in late April, not going to connect with JH. ... *NOT* going to the meeting retreat because of creek clean up and meeting up with some friends.
w5/9: need a bit of time for this afternoon. Plan Prel in later April. Have not been in contact with the twit nor with St-- Mig-- for catching up. Can't bring myself to feel guilty....
1. SELF ------------------------
* incorporate more movement into my life
* finish strategy
* sketch out goals for coming seasons?
* need some sort of to-do experiment practice (just the calendar thingie & yams?)
w3/9 plan to do ten "squats" before bed... Try getting in a mile walk/20 min daily.... Just mapped a mile walk at work.
w4/9: squats are working out (while brushing teeth) but not so much the movement. The other three goals now seem more possible. I'll look at strategy & goals this week.
w5/9: less movement this past week (fewer squats, but a walk). Haven't looked at goals: have been focussing on the to-do practice around home. Work to do practice is going OK with mind map.
2. F&F ------------------------
* call Grandmama once a month at least
* post things to Granddad once a month
* March: thank yous & spring/easter (Apr 4) notes
w2/9: goal for this week: thank you notes
w3/9: continue to target ty notes. Also, have been thinking about corresponding with nephews.
w5/9: easter notes to parents & grandparents. Nephew (and niece) notes. And TY. Call Grandmama?
3. COM ------------------------
* -.Lib continue to focus on completing the review of donations,
cataloging new books, establishing process
* -.over continue coordinate committees. Next fall shift to something else?
* [creek] news gathering every month
w1/9:Continued work on creek news and oversight. A little on library.
w2/9: Lots of energy in these three priorities. Dewey research for library.
w3/9: Need to reinvigorate oversight work, have been on hiatus since meeting on Thursday.
w5/9: Yay, going OK (lingering to-do's but whatever)
4. WORK ------------------------
* write one story about my work history each month,
good or bad, unresolved, proud moment. 12 months, twelve years.
* [as time? 03, 07, 08?] books picked out by the reading group in the home office
** March http://brevity.org/misc/bestswi.html
** April (on hold at MVPL) Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day
* performance appraisals
** Feb H-C
** Apr B-B
** Apr S-E
w4/9: late on H-C now but finished B-B (need to do B-B & S-E this month) Write March story.
w5/9: same as 4/9
5. CRT ------------------------
* crochet
** mom's apron for mother's day
** Christine's gloves
* painting the 4x4 meditation painting?
* April is National Poetry month: He1icopter Stories?
w/3/9: ... a white flower during torture talk
w 4/9: finished gloves YAY.
w 5/9: Continuing to fiddle with white flowers. Have been thinking about poetry. Gessoed the 4x4
6. HOME ------------------------
* Meeting donation once a month
* Plan when to give to Save the Bay, Sierra Club, other orgs with Christine
* box all CDs in CD boxes from moving (organized as can be done)
** my job is to alphabetize
* craig's list the shelves
* DECK
** clean -- how? how much?
** new plants?
* Spring decor
* Beltane decor
w3/9: ... i [don't] need new plants except for herbs. Not going to try vegetables this year.
w4/9: spring decor/ceiling finished. Made rough draft of philant for year with Christine. TODO: Back to CDs in hall. Stick meeting donation in box.
w5/9: put donation for March in the box. And do April's too. *headdesk* Box CDs
Note 2: I did dream a great deal this morning. No narrative i can put my finger on. A sense of secrecy. A faculty office in some near abandoned wing of a woods surrounded building, with a derelict access as if from a highway, and an associate hawk's roost. The faculty member and i crash in his office for the night. Is he my dissertation advisor? Past advisor? Undercurrent of sexual tension, but the urgency of the secret work overrides personal interests. That's the only fragment i kept -- probably because i was trying to work out if the faculty member was someone i knew (my real advisor?!) or just an archetype. Also, hawk! There was other movement about in an east coast hardwood landscape -- late autumn, cold, damp, and gray -- and pulling things up out of boggy water.
Note 3: Yesterday evening i rebelled against what i "should" do. I had a tension headache by the end of the workday, again, and had a tiny bit of (near undrinkable) wine when i got home as a slight relaxant. Self medication, yes, and a walk would have been wiser. I helped fold the laundry Christine had started. (Part of why walk was out -- the timing to be at the dryer.) I did have a call from my Mom, and i listened to all the ways she frames herself in failure and overwhelm. It's just her chit chat, her small talk, and i think i manage not to do it myself except for here in this space. I don't know how to tell stories of my day to day life easily without lapsing into the narrative of overwhelm, though. I tried telling her about the digital paper dolls.
Note 4: the care committee i'm on will convene at my home today at 3:30. If you could hold me and the three others in the Light (or however you may frame care and love), i'd appreciate it. In particular, the issues are around diminishment with age and chronic illness, and despair.
Now, to rush through my goals, a day late!
0. time ------------------------
* Potential things to do:
** [2→1] Visit the Prel--- library (to get rid of books, sooner?)
** [1→3] Find a time to have brunch with St-- Mig-- (March?)
** [2→X] Time from work to attend Berkeley Statute of Anne April 9-10 ?
** [3→2] time aside for taxes and possible "war tax" protest
** [3→X] meeting retreat
** [3→?] wherecamp
Current conference line up:
* evening Wednesday 7 April (Santa Clara): “What the Surprising Failure of Data Anonymization Means for Law and Policy.”
* May 17-19, 2010: IIW10 (Mountain View): internet identity workshop
* June 21-25 (Raleigh, North Carolina -- hey,
annie_r & lola_kristine): inCommon's CAMP & Advanced CAMP.I need vacation time for June, so i'm definitely saving my personal days (i'll have 2 in June)
Season begins with 11.67 d, and i'll earn 3.3. If i take the contingency time plus the whim, i'll have used up what i earned for the period.
* Potential 1 d
* Whim 11-12 Mar: 1.375 days
w4/9: decided Prel--: in late April, not going to connect with JH. ... *NOT* going to the meeting retreat because of creek clean up and meeting up with some friends.
w5/9: need a bit of time for this afternoon. Plan Prel in later April. Have not been in contact with the twit nor with St-- Mig-- for catching up. Can't bring myself to feel guilty....
1. SELF ------------------------
* incorporate more movement into my life
* finish strategy
* sketch out goals for coming seasons?
* need some sort of to-do experiment practice (just the calendar thingie & yams?)
w3/9 plan to do ten "squats" before bed... Try getting in a mile walk/20 min daily.... Just mapped a mile walk at work.
w4/9: squats are working out (while brushing teeth) but not so much the movement. The other three goals now seem more possible. I'll look at strategy & goals this week.
w5/9: less movement this past week (fewer squats, but a walk). Haven't looked at goals: have been focussing on the to-do practice around home. Work to do practice is going OK with mind map.
2. F&F ------------------------
* call Grandmama once a month at least
* post things to Granddad once a month
* March: thank yous & spring/easter (Apr 4) notes
w2/9: goal for this week: thank you notes
w3/9: continue to target ty notes. Also, have been thinking about corresponding with nephews.
w5/9: easter notes to parents & grandparents. Nephew (and niece) notes. And TY. Call Grandmama?
3. COM ------------------------
* -.Lib continue to focus on completing the review of donations,
cataloging new books, establishing process
* -.over continue coordinate committees. Next fall shift to something else?
* [creek] news gathering every month
w1/9:Continued work on creek news and oversight. A little on library.
w2/9: Lots of energy in these three priorities. Dewey research for library.
w3/9: Need to reinvigorate oversight work, have been on hiatus since meeting on Thursday.
w5/9: Yay, going OK (lingering to-do's but whatever)
4. WORK ------------------------
* write one story about my work history each month,
good or bad, unresolved, proud moment. 12 months, twelve years.
* [as time? 03, 07, 08?] books picked out by the reading group in the home office
** March http://brevity.org/misc/bestswi.html
** April (on hold at MVPL) Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day
* performance appraisals
** Feb H-C
** Apr B-B
** Apr S-E
w4/9: late on H-C now but finished B-B (need to do B-B & S-E this month) Write March story.
w5/9: same as 4/9
5. CRT ------------------------
* crochet
** mom's apron for mother's day
** Christine's gloves
* painting the 4x4 meditation painting?
* April is National Poetry month: He1icopter Stories?
w/3/9: ... a white flower during torture talk
w 4/9: finished gloves YAY.
w 5/9: Continuing to fiddle with white flowers. Have been thinking about poetry. Gessoed the 4x4
6. HOME ------------------------
* Meeting donation once a month
* Plan when to give to Save the Bay, Sierra Club, other orgs with Christine
* box all CDs in CD boxes from moving (organized as can be done)
** my job is to alphabetize
* craig's list the shelves
* DECK
** clean -- how? how much?
** new plants?
* Spring decor
* Beltane decor
w3/9: ... i [don't] need new plants except for herbs. Not going to try vegetables this year.
w4/9: spring decor/ceiling finished. Made rough draft of philant for year with Christine. TODO: Back to CDs in hall. Stick meeting donation in box.
w5/9: put donation for March in the box. And do April's too. *headdesk* Box CDs